"Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere."

-- Huston Smith

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“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
“If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.”
“Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.”

Source : "Curtis Sittenfeld: Fictionalizing A First Lady". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 13, 2008.
“When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.”
“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.165, Univ of California Press
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
“For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.”
“It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”

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