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"But what is the use of making the world more beautiful if the people who live in it can't love one another?"

— P. D. James An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)

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"Old age can be very frightening, Commander. A lawyer whose mind is apt to go blank isn't just inefficient, he's dangerous."

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Every novelist write what he or she needs to write, a subconscious compulsion to express and explain his unique view of reality.

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"Hunch is a good servant but a poor master."

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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

The Children of Men (1992)

"It isn't what you suspect, it's what you can prove that counts."

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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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