"Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it."

-- Norman Lock

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“Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.”
“I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple”
“Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.”

Source : Julia Alvarez (2010). “In the Time of the Butterflies”, p.76, Algonquin Books
“I am a gardener of infinite time.”
“People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.”
“The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.”
“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”
“A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .”

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