Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard:
it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who . . . have already
accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the
expectations of their fantasies.
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| We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied
that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another
question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
Desmond
Morris (b. 1928), British anthropologist. The Naked Ape, ch. 5 (1967). |
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given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris
Lessing (b. 1919), British novelist. Particularly Cats, ch. 2 (1967). |
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| To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's
a machine, a walking dildo.
Valerie
Solanas (b. 1940), U.S. artist, writer. The SCUM Manifesto (1968).
The acronym SCUM stood for "Society for Cutting Up Men."
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The great secret that all old people share is
that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes,
but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing (b. 1919), British
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