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“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“I don't know what to do
two states of mind in me”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“but me you have forgotten
or you love some man more than me”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
― Gore Vidal

“Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.”
― Gore Vidal, Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
― Albert Einstein

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées