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“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up. Somebody said that, but I can’t remember who.”
“Voltaire,” the younger man said. He rubbed his chin and smiled, a cheerful,
unaffected smile. “Voltaire might be off the mark, though, when it comes to me. I have hardly any beard at all, but have loved thinking about things since I was a kid.”
His face was indeed smooth, with no hint of a beard. His eyebrows were narrow, but thick, his ears nicely formed, like lovely seashells. “I wonder if what Voltaire meant wasn’t ideas as much as meditation,” Tsukuru said. The man inclined his head a fraction. “Pain is what gives rise to meditation. It has
nothing to do with age, let alone beards.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.”
― Katherine Hepburn

“I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”
― Marlon Brando