“We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.”
Source : "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008. 
“The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.”
Source : "Why Aren't Men Asked If They Can 'Have It All'?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 8, 2014.
“My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.”
“Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts”
Source : Mongo Beti (1978). “Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness”, Heinemann Educational Books
Source : Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing
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