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The backseat produced the sexual revolution. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#produced #revolution #sexual #sexual revolution

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. ↗

— Philip Roth

#aged #dying #everything #exactly #except

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. ↗

— Philip Roth

#audacity #authority #beauty #belief #contest

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. ↗

— Murray Rothbard

#crushed #defeated #expands #glories #state

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him. ↗

— Stuart Rothenberg

#clinton #embrace #former #him #i

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us ↗

— Jeff Jarvis

#other-people #privacy #age

So how long do I have to pack? ↗

— Don Darkes

#lifestyles #madagascar #shipwreck #woman-s-strength #family

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#crucial #matter #only #subject #subject matter

In your life, right here and now, things like mermaids, fairies, witches and monsters are nothing but fairytales told to your grandchildren and stories you heard from your own grandparents as children. They exist only in your imagination. Did you ever think that there is a chance all this was once real, that it all existed? Perhaps yes, but you would then consider such thoughts irrational, that even if you were to believe it and try telling someone they would think you for mad. In my world those creatures are real – I’m real, and I am here to tell you of a story that happened in eons past in the majestic island of Aster." - Queen of Merfolk Asteria - Ninemia ↗

— Marilena Mexi

#mermaids #siren #imagination

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is. ↗

— Arnold Rothstein

#dumb #get #going #him #man