"She took kisses like so many coats of paint [â€¦] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, â€˜She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly."

-- Lawrence Durrell

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“Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.”
“The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.”

Source : "Civilization Held Together by Persuasion, Not Force". The Religion & Liberty Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.
“When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don't think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.”
“I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.”
“[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.”
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.”

Source : Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster
“Friendship needs no words.”
“Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.”

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