"after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh."

-- Lawrence Durrell

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“Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,”

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“We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made â€” everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.”
“Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.”
“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.”
“Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.”
“absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird”
“Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.”
“Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.”

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