At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home. John D. MacDonald
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  1. Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.
  2. It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.
  3. I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
  4. We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
  5. In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."-- Meyer's Law
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