That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
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Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
John Fowles in The Magus
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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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I don’t think the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has much chance of actually affecting the government. It’s one of the first things you have to face up to. But we do it to keep our self-respect to show to ourselves, each one to himself or herself, that we care. And to let other people, all the lazy, sulky, hopeless ones like you, know that someone cares. We’re trying to shame you into thinking about it, about acting.
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