"It didnâ€™t matter the quality of the writingâ€” Callieâ€™s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic."

-- Sarah MacLean

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“When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night and even the terrestial seasons...But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should, as much as possible, resemble Southern California.”
“She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.”
“Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.”

Source : Jean Shinoda Bolen (2007). “Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness As A Soul Journey”, p.227, Conari Press
“As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.”
“It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.”

Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”
“Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.”

Source : Emma Bull (2004). “War for the Oaks: A Novel”, p.211, Macmillan
“In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.”

Source : Georg Simmel, David Frisby, Mike Featherstone (1997). “Simmel on culture: selected writings”, Sage Publications Ltd
“Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.”

Source : "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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