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I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are... Germaine Greer
Oh yeah brother I was right they started in with that mormon vudo right off the bat as soon as we walked in everybody was friendly. One of them who later became known to my family as the amazing Mr. Plastic Man even told me that he loved us. Please there are times I don't even like us how could you possibly love us. I was thinking spend some time with me pal and I'll cure you of that. Glenn Beck
Mark Twain quote: "I’m so happy I could scalp somebody. (Said after he got married)"
I’m so happy I could scalp somebody. (Said after he got married) Mark Twain
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face. Anna Akhmatova
Oscar Wilde quote: "I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as..."
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf quote: "For the young people could not talk. And why should they?..."
For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn... Virginia Woolf
Emily Bronte quote: "How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised..."
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. Emily Bronte
She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner. J. M. Barrie
The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating. Andre Gide
John Steinbeck quote: "He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it..."
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time. John Steinbeck
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat Anne Rice
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him. Thomas Carlyle
And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello. Aldous Huxley
Walter Scott quote: "A Christmas gambol oft could cheer. The poor man's heart..."
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer. The poor man's heart through half the year. Walter Scott
here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail. Thomas de Quincey

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