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Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

— Anna Quindlen

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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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