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“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”
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“ ... the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.”
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“Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life ... ”
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“Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.”
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“Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.”
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“[Social] workers have this attitude that the welfare is coming right out of their pockets — an outlook the hierarchy likes to cultivate.”
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“... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.”
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“There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.”