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Jane Rule

"Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering."

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"Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

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"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

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Amber Hurdle

"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

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"The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began."

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"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

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"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

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"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

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"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

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"Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't."
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"People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives."
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"Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better."
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"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for."
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"I believe only in art and failure."
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"The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education."
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"I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art."
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"Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity."
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"If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us."
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"Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique."
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