"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

-- Bell Hooks

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“My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.”
“If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.”
“Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!”

Source : Marcel Leroux (2006). “Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology”, p.4, Springer Science & Business Media
“We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.”

Source : Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.”
“My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.”

Source : "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.
“There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.”
“The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.”

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