"To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites."

-- James Buchan

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“I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.”
“The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.”
“Hillary Clinton is going to build up opportunity. Donald Trump is going to tear it down if he becomes president.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved”
“When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.”
“You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.”
“Time is not kind to everything.”

Source : "Gen Xers, Millenials Sound Off On The Music That Moves Them". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. October 21, 2013.
“It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.”

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