"And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.”
“She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.”

Source : Janet Campbell Hale (1987). “The Jailing of Cecelia Capture”, p.201, UNM Press
“Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.”

Source : "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.
“Mrs. Darling: There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams. Michael: Where did he put them? Mrs. Darling: He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.”
“Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.”
“In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.”
“Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your loverâ€™s hand in public”
“A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.”

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