"Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe."

-- Jean Rhys

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“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.”
“People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.”
“Every quarterback can be rattled. There's no guy who can't be.”
“Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.”

Source : Entry for March 9, 1774. "The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America". Book by William Gordon, Volume 1 p. 347, 1969.
“Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.”
“Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.”
“The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.”

Source : Le Genie de Christianisme pt. 2, bk. 1, ch. 3 (1802)

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