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Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day.

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Fannie Hurst

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

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Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

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Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

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I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.

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I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

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