"Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents."

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Source : Francine du Plessix Gray (1983). “World Without End”, Playboy Mass Market Paperbacks

Francine du Plessix Gray

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“Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.”
“He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.”
“I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.”
“Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.11, Oxford University Press
“The media loves negative spin.”

Source : "Chloe Sevigny on Pauly D, Parodies, and More". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2011.
“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.”
“I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
“Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”

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