"The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews."

-- Jane Smiley

#Brother Quotes #Sibling Quotes #Sister In Law Quotes

“When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.”
“Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.”
“It's the guided thought that conquers; not the guided missile.”
“The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.”

Source : Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
“The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.”
“One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.”
“Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.”
“Writing is always a process of discoveryâ€”I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. Thereâ€™s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.”

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