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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido. William S. Burroughs
Frantz Fanon quote: "Mastery of language affords remarkable power."
Mastery of language affords remarkable power. Frantz Fanon
Salman Rushdie quote: "Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough."
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough. Salman Rushdie
We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him. Andrew Carnegie
I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are. James Baldwin
James Baldwin quote: "Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can..."
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore James Baldwin
Robert Musil quote: "Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days..."
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. Robert Musil
We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...]My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the... Wallace Stegner
A great many young men try to justify themselves and check inward protests by the perpetual self-suggestion that it is better to keep on, for the present, in questionable occupations, because the great financial reward will put them in position to do better later. This is a sort of sedative to the conscience to keep it quiet until they can afford to listen to it. Orison Swett Marden
Adrienne Rich quote: "The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't..."
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. Adrienne Rich
Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably. Studs Terkel
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves. Terry Prachett
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me; Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all. Bolted against me. Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers, Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence. Worse than Abiram's. Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice. Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong; I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, am. Buried above ground. William Cowper
Leonard Cohen quote: "Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore"
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore Leonard Cohen
The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford. Portia de Rossi

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