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When you are trying to cut down your workload, the place to look is not at your individual tasks, but at your commitments.
“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
― Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
― Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
“– Отец Панкратий, послушайте! Вы знаете, где мы все живем, в какой стране, в каком государстве. Здесь все – как бы. Как бы покой, как бы воля, как бы закон, как бы порядок, как бы царь, как бы бояре, как бы холопья, как бы дворяне, как бы церковь, как бы детский сад, как бы школа, как бы парламент, как бы суд, как бы больница, как бы мясо, как бы самолет, как бы водка, как бы бизнес, как бы машина, как бы завод, как бы дороги, как бы кладбища, как бы пенсия, как бы сыр, как бы мир, как бы война, как бы мать родна.
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– Настоящее у нас – только вот эта боеголовка.”
― Белый квадрат
Затворник перестал хлебать чай.
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– Настоящее у нас – только вот эта боеголовка.”
― Белый квадрат
“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.”
― Yellow Blue Tibia
― Yellow Blue Tibia
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