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Auberon Waugh quote: "Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies..."
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them. Auberon Waugh
If Rabbit knew a way to clone an adult sized vagina, Rabbit would clone it, have sex with it, then clone an arm to the side of that vagina so he could carry it with him everywhere he went like a big, fuzzy key chain. John Updike
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that deemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. Ayn Rand
When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they become "producers " they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought. They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made. They believe that the only good response from the teacher is "yes," and that a "no" is defeat. John Holt
[Women need to realize that with] what they have in their hands there is no limit to what they could accomplish. The trouble is they let the capitalists make them believe they wouldn't be ladylike. Mary Harris Jones
Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others.But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you. Augusten Burroughs
I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day. Oscar Wilde
I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde
Charles M. Schulz quote: "Dear Valentine, I have thought of you often. Not all the time,..."
Dear Valentine, I have thought of you often. Not all the time, but often. Charles M. Schulz
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute. P. G. Wodehouse
Louisa May Alcott quote: "It's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't..."
It's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. Louisa May Alcott
Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings. Edward Said
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before."
On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before. Edgar Allan Poe
Orson Scott Card quote: "Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is..."
Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it. Orson Scott Card
[...] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear. Jodi Picoult

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