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“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
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“Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
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“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.”
― The Thorn Birds
― The Thorn Birds
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
― 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
― 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
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