"THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem."

-- Anne Carson

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“Several of our children have married outside my faith. Would I prefer they marry within their religion? Yes, because I know that marrying outside the family faith will very likely bring them more problems-but not from me. My job is to accept them and love them, not to criticize them and make their lives more difficult.”
“Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord.”
“I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.”
“I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.”
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
“If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.”
“And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.”
“A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.”

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