"The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time."

-- Christopher Lasch

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“...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance...”
“Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.”
“What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?”
“And your police are like our police in the Realm?' Blue said. 'They flog you if you do something wrong and cut off your hand if youâ€™re caught stealing?' No, they donâ€™t do that, Henry said uncertainly. Why not? Itâ€™s pretty silly not to, isnâ€™t it?' Blue said.”
“The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.”
“No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.”
“But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.”

Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.
“And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.”

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