"Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world."

-- Erica Jong

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“I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.”
“Intelligent women make the mistake of assuming that if they hold a higher degree, they can hold their own in a political debate, and they have a good understanding of mid-caps”
“Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.”
“Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college,”
“A woman simply is, but a man must become.”

Source : Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
“I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).”

Source : Paul Neilan (2007). “Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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