"Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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“I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.”
“Politicians are better liars than writers.”
“Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always included attacks on individual responsibility. For if individuals do not have free will, and are not responsible for their actions, then their lives must be controlled somehow - preferably by the state - according to the socialists. They must be regulated, regimented and controlled - for their own good.”
“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”

Source : 'Cynthia's Revels' (1600) act 3, sc. 2
“In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.”
“When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.”
“The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.”

Source : Francesca Lia Block (2012). “Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat”, p.8, Harper Collins
“I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.”

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