Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
("Still Life with Woodpecker")
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Kudra was amused by Alobar's tentative polka until her eyes fell upon the tumescent protrusion dancing with him. Disgusting she thought. An erection is just inappropriate. Then she realized with a shock that she was so wet that children could have sailed toy boats in her underpants.
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Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
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Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
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W. H. Auden
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire