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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

— Spider Robinson Lady Slings the Booze (1992)

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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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As Bob Dylan forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky."

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Terror leaves you when you despair; once you let yourself hope again it returns redoubled.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

As the poet tells us: once a king, always a king—but once a night is often sufficient.

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