"The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

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“I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.”

Source : "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.
“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”
“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
“So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.”
“I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.”
“Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
“â€¦always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.”

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