"Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die..."

-- Margaret Drabble

#Fate Quotes #Birth Quotes #Abandoned Quotes

“The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.”
“"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."”
“You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.”
“What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.”
“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”
“I really donâ€™t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You donâ€™t know where itâ€™s been.â€ â€“Enid Healy”
“The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship.”
“And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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