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Norman Mailer quote: "Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex..."

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

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People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way. Martin Amis
Kenneth Lay quote: "Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots,..."
Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots, will be filled internally. Kenneth Lay
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain. George Eliot
Earl Long quote: "I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home."
I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home. Earl Long
Joan Blades quote: "What we do is not going to be successful unless our members..."
What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it. Joan Blades
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. Anais Nin
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. Miriam Makeba
Victoria Pratt quote: "There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to..."
There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer. Victoria Pratt
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. Xi Zhi
There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge. Ayn Rand
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. Warren E. Burger
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. John Searle
Christopher Reeve quote: "You've got to give more than you take."
You've got to give more than you take. Christopher Reeve
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement."It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live. Orson Scott Card
Dean Koontz quote: "I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it..."
...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room. Dean Koontz