"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been."

-- Raymond Carver

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“The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.”

Source : Paul Kurtz (1986). “The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal”
“I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.”
“I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.”
“But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.”
“I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.”
“It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.382, Carroll & Graf
“Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
“I would rather start a family than finish one.”

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