Half Quote by Shana Alexander

“Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.”

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We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more…

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The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the…

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Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.

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In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this bleakly beautiful…

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Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a…

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The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist…

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The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

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The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

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