"I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could."

-- John Haines

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“Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.”
“I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.”
“All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”
“A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.”
“I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.”
“The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.”
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.”
“I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there”

Source : "Author delivers 'accessible' Soviet history" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2000.

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