"Death can be hastened but never shared."

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Source : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.178, Macmillan

Joan Slonczewski

“There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.”
“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.”
“But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.”
“I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich”
“In your beauty, how to make poems.”
“The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.”
“I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.”
“Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.”

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