"To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together."

-- Julie Burchill

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“Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.”
“If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries.”
“Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.”
“...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.”

Source : Barbara Hambly (1999). “Winterlands”, Del Rey
“For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live”
“Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.”

Source : "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.
“My grandfather got me mad and I peed inside his orange juice and asked him if it's tangy.”
“Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.”

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