"Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow."

-- Paula Fox

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“I recently realized that I'm gender-fluid - I didn't even know that was a term until recently - but I have a strong effeminate side and identify with women in that way. Because women would make jokes and they were all really funny, but the straight male comics always said "faggot," or they had some really awful gay joke. And so it's like, I'm just going to watch the ladies because they don't - I'm sure there are, but I couldn't even tell you one woman comic that I've ever heard say the word "faggot."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.”
“... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense”

Source : Alfred Tarski, Steven R. Givant (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”
“Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well as you can.”
“I was just thinking â€“ today is the first and last day of forever. Itâ€™s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.”
“Itâ€™s mostly just you have to convince yourself that thereâ€™s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!”
“Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.”
“Two thongs don't make a right.”

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