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- Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
- [The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!
- Theodor Herzl (1860 - 1904)
- The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
- Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
- Sheila Graham
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
- Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
- Lenore Hershey
- Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
- Marilyn Ferguson
- [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
- Marge Piercy
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