"The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance."

-- Thomas Huxley

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“Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.”

Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
“What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.”
“I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.”
“The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.”
“I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.”
“Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company
“I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.”
“He pressed a kiss to my ear. â€œDo you feel stretched? Can you tell Iâ€™ve been inside you?â€ I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. â€œGood. I like knowing you can feel where Iâ€™ve been.”

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