"I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran."

-- Shirley Jackson

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“Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.”
“People have always been animals when it comes to sex. But since the Internet, it's become really out of control, in my opinion.”
“The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.”
“I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'”
“I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.”
“Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted”
“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”
“When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?”

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