"The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch."

-- Anthony Burgess

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“To this day I donâ€™t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.”
“I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.”
“It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.”

Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”
“And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.”

Source : Ali Smith (2007). “Girl Meets Boy”, p.160, Canongate Books
“One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.”
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”

Source : Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.162, Penguin
“Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.”

Source : "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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