"I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex"

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Source : David Lodge (1995). “Therapy: a novel”, Viking Pr

David Lodge

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“How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.411, Penguin
“Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.”

Source : "Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1987.
“Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.”
“I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.”
“Rin slept inside the oakâ€™s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.”
“You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.”
“I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.”

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