"I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have"

--

Tim Winton

“Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.”
“Every winner has scars.”
“What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!”
“Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”
“Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.”
“When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.”

Source : S. Bear Bergman (2010). “Butch is a Noun”, p.66, arsenal pulp press
“I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.”
“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

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