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  It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men....
• You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat.
  If you do not eat, you will starve. And your prickles will die with the rest of your body....
• Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is.
  That is the smile: that what might not be, is. -- John Fowles, The Magu...
• Cats like to sit on what you are reading at the time.
• The perfect friend sees the best in you -- sees it constantly -- not just when you occasionally are that way, but also when you waver, when you forget yourself, act like less than you are.
  In time, you become more like his vision of you -- which is the person you have always wanted to be....
• The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
  -- John Fowles, The Magu...
• You need more time; and you probably always will.