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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
— Karl Kraus
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But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto…
— Jack Kerouac
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In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically…
— Paul Krugman
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...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care…
— Olive Ann Burns
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What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the…
— Pope John Paul II
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For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make…
— Lawrence Durrell
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