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“Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thoughts…planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.”

Limits Planning Wander Rebellion Heroic Virgins Tramps Outburst Unruly

Author:Renzo Novatore

“Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.”

Knows Feels Has Beens Young Joy Mother Sex Process Instinct Intellect Supreme Hardship Virgins Faded Virginity Deprivation Young Mother

Book:The journal of Arnold Bennett

Source: The journal of Arnold Bennett

“Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.”

Kind Spirituality Knowing Virgins

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to worship at the temple of Jupiter. But Horace's poetry has lasted longer than Jupiter's religion, and Jupiter himself has only survived because he disappeared into literature.”

Long Said Lasts Literature Worship Mood Hills Temples Verses Survived Virgins Jupiter

Book:Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

“It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.”

Jesus Son Birth Fallen Resurrection Virgins

Book:Life of Christ

Source: Life of Christ

“Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.”

Giving Long Has Beens Enough Desire Opportunity Simple Blood Design Function Engineers Forgiven Virgins Could Have Been Chamber Rockets Goats Firing Debacles

Author:Norman Mailer

“Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.”

Ifs Persons I Can Actors Can Do Proud Comedian Tragic Mary Accents Virgins Clown Life Death I Can Do It Virgin Mary

Author:Roberto Benigni

“You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.”

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Author:Garret Dillahunt

“When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.”

Able Found Voice Boys Suicide Narrative Reports Strict Virgins Virgin Suicides Narrative Voice Strict Rules

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.”

Thinking Would Be Unique Suicide Virgins Being Cool Soundtracks Ethereal Virgin Suicides Chipmunks

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.”

Way Children Country Mountain Compliment Virgins Your Smile Barefoot

Author:Van Morrison

“I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.”

Dies Evil Cry Baby Burning Sensations Scream Virgins Belly Ache Fries Convicts

Author:Alice Cooper

“I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.”

Long Right Now Dresses Suicide Virgins Chloe Virgin Suicides

Author:Elle Fanning