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Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
What are you doing here? Just trying to find my story.
Your absence insanes me so I do not feel so peaceful, when you are gone from me.
As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, ...
My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous massof post-human organic circuitry.Cyperpunk is my mother tongue.My love is a man-machine interface gun.
Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a ...
Every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer ...
Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't ...
Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes ...
Intentions are nothing
Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the ...
A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.
Imagine, for example, that you're walking into a church. To be admitted through the front door, you're forced to sign a waiver that says, "I'm ...
A slut and time are consubstantial, both devoid of shame and love
What's more, you're loads better than you think you are.""So why is it I get to thinking that way?" I puzzled."That's because you're only half-living." ...
Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.
Dying or getting killed isn't something unnatural. Living aimlessly without a purpose is.
Can we talk?""Fuck off.""Good. You're willing to cooperate.
Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to ...
he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.
Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.
But why have you dear English Jew whose forefathers fought to enter the country of Johnny Mill, the Stuart with a little heart, saunter in ...
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers ...
I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
And then Julia's thinking about the internet and blogging; how everyone with a keyboard thinks they can just bang out articles no problem, never mind ...
Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not."*
He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor ...
It's funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.
Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain ...
E-Commerce makes it easy to spend money. Netiquette makes you aware hidden fees.
More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks ...
And if I fucked you, it'd be forceful, wouldn't it?" "Well, that's what rape is, Borden. Forceful." He shrugged. "You can have consensual forceful fucking, ...
Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.
I cough. "Oh, doctor. I think I'm sick I need some penis-cilin." I fake cough again into my hand. "Poor patient. What will I ever ...
If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a primary ...
The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of ...
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their ...
I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very ...
He couldn't be serious. He was not accusing Marc of wanting me dead! If that wasn't the pot calling the kettle black, I'd ... I'd ...
Perhaps," he reminded her, "you forget that you are a Cadwaladr. First. Last. And always. The protection of our Clan is and always will be ...
I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I ...
Have you ever had sex with a Pharaoh?I put the pussy in a sarcophagus
Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others ...
I find you irritating. (Kat)I haven't even begun to irritate you yet. Imagine what I could do if I applied myself? (Solin)I can imagine. I ...
Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are ...
Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.
I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned
That's fucking gay. Everything is gay.
You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A ...
Did you come for my feelings? Because I left 'em in my other pants.-Greg House
I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to ...
Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages,
The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told ...
Intramuros! The old Manila. The original Manila. The Noble and Ever Loyal City ...
An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.
I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just ...
I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless ... In no other game does the ...
The sun, like a boil on the bright blue ass of day, rolled gradually forward and spread its legs wide to reveal the pubic thatch ...
This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, ...
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all
I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X ...
The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ...
Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only ...
What's so civil about war anyway?
God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during ...
And tomorrowwho knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knowsit's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end ...
I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.
I learned that attention is a prize, in love. The first thing you give. And the first thing to go, when the 'new' wears off.
A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.
I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs ...
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'
Sometimes something you thought wouldn't really be as big as it was blows up into something else.
When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that ...
I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
Mushrooms are fungus and fungus reminds me of feet and I don't eat feet.)
Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.
They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings
There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, ...
My lord is coming, and he will have no mercy on his enemies!
No unique purpose for your life will fill your soul. The only thing that will fulfill and settle your soul is God himself.
The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.
Those who survive are those who do not defy the gravity of others. And those who desire even a moment of freedom, find themselves hurled ...
If you're more concerned about our reputation than about me, then I'll just withdraw and not have a family anymore. p.32
Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to ...
I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do ...
Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.
Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads or Fuji apples, books once consumed, do not disappear.
Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' ...
It's bad for you if you never do anything bad for you.