Steve Kabe

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
― George Washington Carver

“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”
― Ken Follett, Winter of the World

“I went to the doctor," said the woman next to Ethel. "I said to him, 'I've got an itchy twat.'"

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She went on: "The doctor says to me, he goes, 'You shouldn't say that, it's a rude word.'"

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"I says to him, 'What should I say, then, doctor?' He says to me, 'Say you've got an itchy finger.'"

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"He says to me, 'Do your finger itch you all the time, Mrs. Perkins, or just now and again?'"

Mildred paused, and the women were silent, waiting for the punch line.

"I says, 'No, doctor, only when I piss through it.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to the next generation. We're tired of hearing the politicians and priests and cautious reformers (and the husbands!) coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have plans for a Utopia already made; just give us a bit more time and we'll produce it; trust us; we're wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now - and we're going to try our hands at it. All we want is - everything for all of us! For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher. We want everything. We sha'n't get it. So we sha'n't ever be content -”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street