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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age
"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People
"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
Experience
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
Art
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."
Evil
"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
Fame
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
Man
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