"When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished."

-- Czeslaw Milosz

“I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.”
“Iâ€™d have much rather gotten dragged into someone elseâ€™s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other peopleâ€™s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.”
“If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.”
“People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.”
“I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.”

Source : Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.209, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.”
“Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”

Source : John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117

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