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"I’m guessing “This old city to win became Vincent's base when he travelled to Amsterdam to make a last attempt Kee” is meant to say “This old city became Vincent's base when he travelled to Amsterdam to make a last attempt to win Kee.”" — Jan 19, 2024 06:03AM
"I’m guessing “This old city to win became Vincent's base when he travelled to Amsterdam to make a last attempt Kee” is meant to say “This old city became Vincent's base when he travelled to Amsterdam to make a last attempt to win Kee.”" — Jan 19, 2024 06:03AM
In the immortal words of Janis Joplin, who once lived just a few blocks from here, Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“But gay marriage is coming to America first and foremost because marriage here is a secular concern, not a religious one. The objection to gay marriage is almost invariably biblical, but nobody's legal vows in this country are defined by interpretation of biblical verse - or at least, not since the Supreme Court stood up for Richard and Mildred Loving. A church wedding ceremony is a nice thing, but it is neither required for legal marriage in America nor does it constitute legal marriage in America. What constitutes legal marriage in this country is that critical piece of paper that you and your betrothed must sign and then register with the state. The morality of your marriage may indeed rest between you and God, but it's that civic and secular paperwork which makes your vows official here on earth. Ultimately, then, it is the business of America's courts, not America's churches, to decide the rules of matrimonial law, and it is in those courts that the same-sex marriage debate will finally be settled.”
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Writing, painting, singing—it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For”
― Reached
― Reached
“We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.”
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