"Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love."

-- Bill Keller

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“D.H. Lawrence had the impression â€“ that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a â€˜dirty little secretâ€™, a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production”
“If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.”
“Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.”
“Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.”
“There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled by their desires is the heart of a warrior. Self control is not for the timid. When we want to grow in it, not only do we nurture an exuberance for Jesus Christ, we also demand of ourselves a hatred for sin.”
“I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.”

Source : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
“To go forward you have to leave something behind”
“Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.”

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