"I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity."

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“It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering presence that gratifies our innate urges to be suckled, held, rocked, caressed. But that same gratifying presence puts limits on desire and rations satisfaction. In this sense the mother is also the first lawgiver.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
“No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs....”
“The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about â€˜Godâ€™ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is selfâ€contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny â€˜God,â€™ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.”
“What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.”
“Kissing babies and hugging fat girls.”
“To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.”
“Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like - the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature - you'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant.”
“When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.”

Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.95, Delacorte Press

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