"Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually"

-- Fay Weldon

“it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.”
“The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.”
“I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.”
“He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.”
“customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.”
“The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take these opinions for models. That man is thought best fitted to depict a period of the past, who is not in the least affected by that period. But only he who has a share in building up the future can grasp what the past has been, and only when transformed into a work of art can history arouse or even sustain instincts.”
“Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people.”
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”

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