Alfred Oswalt

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Robyn Arianrhod
“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

Robert Frost
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
Robert Frost

Dalton Trumbo
“A man can't fight always. If he's drowning or suffocating he's got to be smart and hold back some of his strength for the last the final the death struggle.”
Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

Max Nowaz
“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

Susan  Rowland
“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

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