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Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which... Joanna Russ
The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now. William Gibson
I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that. Andrew Wyeth
Neil Gaiman quote: "I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to..."
I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. Neil Gaiman
Voltaire quote: "Let us work without theorizing,' said Martin; 'it is the only..."
Let us work without theorizing,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable. Voltaire
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead. Daniel Boone
Stephen King quote: "In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all..."
In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it. Stephen King
Bruce Springsteen quote: "Talk about a dream, try to make it real"
Talk about a dream, try to make it real Bruce Springsteen
Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli
It seems to me if you add music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You've got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you've got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as... Nick Hornby
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Saul Alinsky quote: "Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit..."
Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough. Saul Alinsky
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. George Bernard Shaw
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition. Marcus Aurelius
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and... John Stuart Mill

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