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All of us begin with an emotion. A single act of love, or ambivalence—or, in my case, cruel, calculated violence—jump-starts the process that brings a human being to life. A whole living, breathing, thinking, crying, smiling, suffering
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“We have a set of rules for our faith, our sexuality, our marriages, our dating relationships, for choosing a church—nothing is off-limits. We tell ourselves to always do this, and never do that, and everything will turn out perfectly. Worse than that, we back up our rules with Bible verses and tell everyone else to follow them too.”
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“Sometimes --- in fact, often --- easy is just as good. Things don't need to be complicated.”
― A Hundred Silent Ways
― A Hundred Silent Ways
“Isn't it weird that everything that's coming out of my mouth is going directly into the past?”
― The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
― The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
“Puns often seem to propagate in direct proportion to efforts aimed at suppressing them. Tell someone they can't say something, and they'll find another way, much as a river will eventually find a way round any mountain on its journey to the sea.”
― The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
― The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
“My closest friend at this time was my tiny pet dog - it was one of the cute little breeds that people in other countries put frocks on. I wouldn't have been allowed to do that, because putting clothes on dogs was a well-known example of capitalist degeneracy.”
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
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