They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm...