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- The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
- Lynn Lavner - as published in PFLAG
- For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart. - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), Roland from "The Last Gunslinger"
- Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- Right now I'm a freshman in my fourth year at U.C.L.A., but my goal is to become a veternarian, 'cause I love children.
- Julie Brown
- The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
- H.P. Lovecraft
- If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
- Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
- Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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