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Iggy Pop quote: "As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable..."
As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful. Iggy Pop
The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man. Pat Conroy
Every one needs to talk to some one," the woman said. "Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone. Ernest Hemingway
Looking back now, it's funny to think we got so worked up, because usually the Sales were a big disappointment....But the point was, I suppose, we'd all of us in the past found something at a Sale, something that had become special...and so however much we tried to pretend otherwise, we couldn't ever shake off the old feelings of hope and excitement. Kazuo Ishiguro
Thomas Pynchon quote: "To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity...."
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult. Thomas Pynchon
George Santayana quote: "Men become superstitious, not because they have too much..."
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. George Santayana
As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still have a generally positive view of the wealthy and, rightly or wrongly, believe they too can make it to Richistan someday. Robert Frank
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "They were given paradise, they wanted freedom, and stole fire..."
They were given paradise, they wanted freedom, and stole fire from heaven, though they knew that they would become unhappy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. Diane Ackerman
Virginia Woolf quote: "Do not dictate to your author try to become him. Be his..."
Do not dictate to your author try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice. Virginia Woolf
Vernor Vinge quote: "[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had..."
[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become. Vernor Vinge
I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them. Italo Calvino
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life. Leo Tolstoy
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it. Paulo Coelho
The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride. Charlaine Harris

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