Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Security is the denial of life
I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2. 4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.
Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.
Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.
The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
When was the last time I chose to be happy rather than demanding to be right?
The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.
A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.