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Oh, any bordello hears secrets, by definition: if our culture were not so sick that natural healthy urges are deadly secrets, there would be little need for bordellos. Father Newman suggested once, only half kidding, that we artists—that all prostitutes—function rather like priests for people who feel more natural confessing their sins while naked.

— Spider Robinson Callahan's Lady (1989)

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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

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