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“Would you risk your life for love?”

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Amy Plum is a contemporary fiction writer born in the United States in 1967. Her works are known for their unique style and profound emotional expression, which have won her a wide audience. more

“All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.”

World Years May Mean Turns Can Do Loss Deals Taken Deserve Strive Resigned

Author:Ken Grimwood

“Sometimes isolation can be shared.”

Sometimes Isolation

Author:Ken Grimwood

“The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.”

Persons Imagination Comedy Paid Silly My Imagination Mistress

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

“Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.”

Long Made Suffering Choices Lost Mistake Moral Dignity Sexuality Long Life Made A Mistake Penance

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”

May Persons Facts Dream Sex Pleasure Female Roots Males Inversions

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.”

Pops Grass Playgrounds Opium Prozac Tarts

Author:Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution”

Trying Audience Laughing Revolution

Author:Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Your staying alive means so much more than you really know, or that anyone is aware of at this moment.”

Knows Mean Moments Alive Staying Staying Alive

Author:Jennifer Michael Hecht

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