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The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. — Thomas Huxley

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs. — Jessie Ware

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould

The moon was up now and the trees were dark against it, and he passed the frame houses with their narrow yards, light coming from the shuttered windows; the unpaved alleys, with their double rows of houses; Conch town, where all was starched, well-shuttered, virtue, failure, grit and boiled grunts, under-nourishment, prejudice, righteousness, inter-breeding and the comforts of religion; the open-doored, lighted Cuban boilto houses, shacks whose only romance was their names — Ernest Hemingway,

My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks — Frantz Fanon

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. — May Sarton

Love is the only trophy that makes a man worth his own salt. — J. Matthew Nespoli

It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it. — Gina Carano

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement! — Jose Rizal

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw

In all things, the beginning and end are the most engaging. Does the love of man and woman suggest only their embraces? No, the sorrow of lovers parted before they met, laments over promises betrayed, long lonely nights spent sleepless until dawn, pining thoughts for one in some far place, a woman left sighing over past love in her tumbledown abode - it is these, surely, that embody the romance of love. — Yoshida Kenko