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| | Sex is the most compressed set of circumstances that we've got. Everything is in that collision.
—Arthur MIller |
| | Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
—Carrie Fisher |
| | I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams |
| | Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde |
| | She is an archeologist, digging up strata of the unspeakable in the twentieth century's moral ruins. Like Simone Weil, she will burn, starve or parachute herself into lucidity.
—John Leonard, writing about Eva Hoffman |
| | In an intellectual wilderness, it is naive to think we can dispense with a compass.
—Todd Gitlin |
| | Things do not change; we change.
—Henry David Thoreau |
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