"Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors."

-- Umberto Eco

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“If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?”

Source : Kevin Leman (2011). “7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know”, p.118, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.”
“I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that decided it was a good idea to politicize love, sex and marriage? Who spent the past four decades proclaiming that "the personal is political," so that every office flirtation and every petty domestic quarrel is a federal civil rights violation? The damned feminists, that's who.”
“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”

Source : "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.
“After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.”
“A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.”
“I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.”

Source : Interview with Susan Sarandon, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2002.
“I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.”

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