Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.
Most things get steadily worse.
Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.
People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.