"Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Fall Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Male homosexuals have seduced and abused millions of underage boys. Their unclean sexual habits and ultra-promiscuous lifestyle have resulted in spreading the worst communicable plague in this century, the specter of AIDS, which has not only killed millions of their own, but also millions of others, including tens of thousands who contracted the virus from blood transfusions.”
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
“Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, one you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand.”
“Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.”
“I like sex writing that makes me think, makes me cringe, makes me angry, makes me look at it in a new way.”
“A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.”
“...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.”
“I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.”

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