"We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment."

-- May Sarton

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“Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.”
“I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.”
“No matter how much you may want to think of HoldÃ©m as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards.”
“I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.”
“There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.”
“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.”
“Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.”

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“We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.”

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