"I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me."

-- Ayn Rand

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“I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.”
“If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”

Source : Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown
“I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.”

Source : "'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' Actress Losses 250 lbs, Wants to Act Again". Interview, www.worstpreviews.com. August 10, 2012.
“Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.”

Source : Of Edward Lear and James Thurber. Quoted in Neil A Grauer Remember Laughter (1994).
“Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.”
“Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'”

Source : "The Golden Girls". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1985 - 1992.
“Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.”
“Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.”

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