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"I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower. The TV was obviously on. I used to fly myself and I said, "There's one terrible pilot."

"Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated."

"When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of."

"Nothing is harder than to accept oneself."

"W C Williams' poetry is: The Imagism of 1912, self-transduced."

"Evil destroyeth itself."

"Spirit of the Age" by Tom Paulin, The Guardian"

"I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but …"

"Forebearence is the dress of a scholar, so do not get yourself undressed of it."

"The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!"

"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."

"In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance."

"It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"Unless I am dashing off a snippy reply to a stalker , my correspondence tends to strive for the spirit of Nietzsche’s gangasrotogati."

"Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable."

"You shouldn't compete against others. You should compete against yourself."

"Be a light unto yourself."

"A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy."

"I say to myself that her small hands are no more worm, and that I would never again carry them soft to my front."

"Our Chauncey." After dinner rhymes, 1891, by Isaac H. Bromley, from the Internet Archive"