"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within.”

Source : Bob Toski, Jerry Tarde (1981). “Golf for a Lifetime!”
“Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.”

Source : David Wong Louie (2000). “The Barbarians are Coming: A Novel”, Marian Wood
“All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains: "What We Know", "What We Know That We Don't Know", and "What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."”
“I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.”
“If you are missing out on the natural joy and wisdom of life, it is because you have been taught to ignore it....Reconnecting with nature consists of bringing into your consciousness a sensory way of thinking and relating with which you are born”
“One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation
“Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.”
“As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.”

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