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"Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. 'But I'm an emotional eater, ' she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. 'And I was real emotional in jail."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."
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Personal Development
"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."
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Personal Development
"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"Sin is the delusion of our feelings, while crime is the delusion of our actions."
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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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"Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person."
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"If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!"
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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
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"The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while."
Nostalgia
"Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation."
Gratitude
"The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share."
Thought
"How grateful are you?' he whispered, his mouth hovering over mine. His eyes were very alert now, and his gaze was boring into mine.'That kind of ruins it, when you say something like that, ' I said, trying to keep my voice gentle. 'You shouldn't want me to have sex with you just because I owe you.'I don't really care why you have sex with me, as long as you do it, ' he said, equally gently."
Desire
"I have a big hole in my heart, ' I said. 'But it'll close over.'I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil, ' she said. 'But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?'That's good advice, ' I said. 'I hope I can manage it."
Healing
"Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same."
Expression
"I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake."
Peace
"Vampires, bringing America together!"
Humor
"It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex - boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal."
Relationship
"Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied."
Ethics
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