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Darian Leader
“Even in the supermarket, many products have a notice that instructs customers to return the product should they find that the seal is broken, surely a relic of the cult of hymenal intactness.”
Darian Leader, Is It Ever Just Sex?

Jordan B. Peterson
“You may feel small or insignificant in comparison, but only because you confront something greater, and there is in that very act of encountering what is greater the realization that greater itself exists, and that it can and should be strived toward.”
Jordan B. Peterson, We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine

Ian McEwan
“I’d like to shout down through a hole in the ceiling of time and advise the people of a hundred years ago: If you want your secrets kept, whisper them into the ear of your dearest, most trusted friend. Do not trust the keyboard and screen. If you do, we’ll know everything.”
Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

Ian McEwan
“The books in that shop can be summoned in an instant to our screens, but oh, to have wandered the aisles, thrilled to be riding the crest of newness, interest and abundance.”
Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

Jordan B. Peterson
“The hedonist, possessed by his desire, may even identify with that god, in the moment or even quasi-permanently (quasi because there will be no real commitment, as that would require precisely the sacrifice that is being rejected). He may presume ownership or, more truly, sovereignty over his current whim (“I am what it is that wants, within me”); claim sexual proclivity or other desire, for example, as the very hallmark of personal being and becoming. This makes every hedonist a polytheist, willing to invite in and to celebrate or worship (that is, to place at the pinnacle or make foundational) the diverse range of spirits corresponding to his or her momentary impulses and drives. All claims to the contrary, however: someone possessed by lust, anger, hunger, or envy is not the master of that ancient motivation or hierarchy of motivation but its slave. The orgiastic and materialistic worshippers of the golden calf are hardly masters of their own fate.”
Jordan B. Peterson, We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine

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