"My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses."

-- Dan Savage

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“More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan
“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”

Source : Harry Crews (1998). “A Feast of Snakes: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.”
“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.”
“When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture”, Larson Publication
“Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment!Â Visions have power.”
“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”
“Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?”

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