"Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing —and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely."

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“Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.”

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“He seeks order, not truth. Suppose truth defies order, will he accept it? Will you? I think not.”

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