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Carolyn Kizer
“What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.”
Carolyn Kizer

Plato
“are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?”
Plato, Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Colin Cotterill
“The woman’s brain has two hemispheres,” she slurred. “One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.”
Colin Cotterill, The Merry Misogynist

Patricia Highsmith
“If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful , or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture.”
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith
“Thanks for all the wonderful memories. They're like something in a museum already or something preserved in amber, a little unreal, as you must have felt yourself always to me”
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

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