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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"Some people - and a high percentage of submissives - wanted clear-cut rules. Preferred their duties laid out, like schedules and lists."

"Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules."

"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."

"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."


"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."


"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."


"The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible."


"Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose."


"Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them."
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