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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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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
— Honore de Balzac
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They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't…
— George Carlin
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
— Thomas Browne
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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…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…
— Donna J. Haraway
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Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone,…
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin
— Dutch Schultz
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Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down…
— Peter Watts
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Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?
— Reginald Shepherd
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What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in…
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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The first family is my kin. The other family is my SNSD family.
— Im Yoona
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