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  1. Susan Vreeland _ Luncheon of the Boating Party

    How does one end a moment like this? It would kill her to feel him pull away. She had to be first. In a moment. One moment more. Yes. Now
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  2. Susan Vreeland _ Luncheon of the Boating Party

    life we can't control, she thought. We must accept the cork we are and stay afl, and bob gaily when we can. She
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  3. Susan Vreeland _ Luncheon of the Boating Party

    One more thing. She wears Patchouli. Every tart in Montmartre wears it. Place Pigalle reeks of it. If she wants to carry out her pose as an aristocrat, she ought to refine her tastes.
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  4. Susan Vreeland _ Luncheon of the Boating Party

    She plucked a raspberry. Sweet juice, sweet pleasure. Within the tangle of tendrils, inside a blossom, a tiny bead was kisses and blessed by the sun, from which it took in light and warmth and heaven's rain imbued with the richness of the soil of France. All of the elements of the river world helped that bead to expand and multiply into sheer casings for sweet pulp, wedge together in a knobby globe until it released its juice in her mouth
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  5. Susan Vreeland _ Luncheon of the Boating Party

    If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In my mind, there are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. I hate le misérabilisme. I'm in the shining business, not the darkening business.
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  6. Susan Vreeland _ Luncheon of the Boating Party

    At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.
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  7. Susan Vreeland _ Luncheon of the Boating Party

    I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it
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