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Quotes from The Golden Nineties — Lisa Mason

born 1953 United States

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What is the value of a life when the world is burdened with twelve billion people?

The Golden Nineties (1995)

Prostitution has little to do with morality, and everything to do with poverty.

The Golden Nineties (1995)

If women go into politics, they’ll wind up as bad as men.

The Golden Nineties (1995)

The future survives because people care. Live responsibly or die.

The Golden Nineties (1995)

That’s what failure did to: run you out, plucked your bones, sucked you dry. It was revolting. A failed man is a loathsome thing.

The Golden Nineties (1995)

What is destiny for any human being? What becomes of probabilities that collapse out of the timeline? Does destiny depend on who witnesses?

The Golden Nineties (1995)

Cosmicists speak of the Great Good, equalizing humanity with all creatures and things. Does a cosmicist accept the death of a child as the same as—say—the destruction of a butterfly? Suppose it’s a rare butterfly and the child is one of twelve billion.

The Golden Nineties (1995)

When you finally cash it in
Out in Frisco;
And you end this life of sin
Out in Frisco;
They will gently toll a bell,
Plant your carcass in a dell,
There’s no need to go to hell,
You’re in Frisco.

The Golden Nineties (1995)

He uncorks the absinthe, pours three rounds.…
“After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. After the third, you see things as they really are, which is the most horrible thing in the world.”

The Golden Nineties (1995)

“Boredom,” he says, “is the province of the unimaginative soul.”

The Golden Nineties (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lisa Mason (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.