"Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort."

-- Richard Yates

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“War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.”

Source : "War". Book by Sebastian Junger, www.hoover.org. 2010.
“Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes." Zane: "I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart.”
“We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.”

Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.97, Penguin
“My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.”
“I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.”
“You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.”
“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”
“The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.”

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