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“Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.”
“Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.”
“Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I donâ€™t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.”
“Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.”
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
“It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1889). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”
“But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.”
“Whatever your problems are, keep in mind that you die at the end of all this. Lets get out there, brutalize ourselves and laugh at those certain ***** who take it seriously, like there is any way to win in all this.”

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