When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it. - Colleen McCullough

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Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea.

Colleen McCullough

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

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There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

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It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

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I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

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There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.

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I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

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Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

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All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

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