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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991) -
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
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