The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. - Germaine Greer

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Superman told me. . . that we needed to make a double. . . type of record. . . and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make. . . a double type of record but it won't be a double album because. . . Batman. . . didn't want a double album'

Germaine Greer

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

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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.

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Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

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Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

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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.

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The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

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Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

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I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

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Nicole Krauss

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.

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Theodore Roosevelt

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

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