Sunday, November 10, 2002
�If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.�
- Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (1830 � 1903) : letter to Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, June 15, 1877.
�A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!�
- Philip Roth (b. 1933), American writer: �Cunt Crazy� from �Portnoy�s Complaint�, 1969.
�The devil�s most devilish when respectable.�
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 � 1861), English poet: �Aurora Leigh�, 1857.
�Terror of discovery and fear of reproval slip into our unconscious minds during infancy and remain there forever, always potent, usually acknowledged.�
- Matthew Parris (b. 1949), British Conservative politician and journalist: �The Spectator�, 1996.
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