"Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock."

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Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

Virgilia Peterson

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“The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.
“Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.”
“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.8, Faber & Faber
“I have a luck cat in my arms, it spins threads of luck. Luck cat, luck cat, make for me three things: make for me a golden ring, to tell me that I am lucky; make for me a mirror to tell me that I am beautiful; make for me a fan to waft away my cumbersome thoughts. Luck cat, luck cat, spin for me some news of my future!”

Source : Edith Södergran, David McDuff (1984). “Complete poems”, Dufour Editions
“Patience is eternal genius”
“Iâ€™ve been thinking Iâ€™d like to be Daisy; Iâ€™d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”
“I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.”
“So my view's quite clear. I believe Cryptocurrencies, bitcoin is the first example, i believe they're going to Change the world.”

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