"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."

-- Karl Marx

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“But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.49, Macmillan
“Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road. It isn't for everybody and it can burn people out, and that's what's happened in the past. We've just kept the ship running y'know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything's alright.”
“There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.”
“I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?”
“Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.”
“Knowledge exists to be imparted.”
“By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.”
“I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.”

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