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ASPEN MATIS My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child.
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ASPEN MATIS I was no longer following a trail.

I was learning to follow myself.
ASPEN MATIS We aren’t afraid of what we can explain.
ASPEN MATIS Childhood is a wilderness.
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ASPEN MATIS The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.
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ASPEN MATIS I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things tha...
ASPEN MATIS Mothers are programmed to teach the fit. They are unequipped to listen to pleas, to alter their patt...
ASPEN MATIS I was so much more powerful than anyone knew. I was an animal learning to fight back, instinctively,...
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ASPEN MATIS A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had brok...
ASPEN MATIS I didn’t know if I was brave or reckless.
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ASPEN MATIS She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew ...
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DARIN STRAUSS I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for ...
C. JOYBELL C. Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.
CINDY SHEEHAN After I retired, I was in Aspen, and after two months of being at home, I started to go nuts. I need...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also...
BIBLE We began to believe that it was going to be our day after that.
MARKKU UUSIPAAVALNIEMI I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
BEN JONSON Dare to lust - Lust is healthy, lust is good, and is a part of our personality we all should embrace...
QUENTIN BRAUN We must allow our lust to be crucified,
CHRISTOPHER WEST Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
JAMES CRONIN Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha...
C. JOYBELL C. The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
GENE TIERNEY If I come to Aspen for one or two nights, I stay at the St. Regis.
MICHAEL DELL I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in th...
C. JOYBELL C. Marital vows no longer mean anything now in our society, that marriage has been perverted by lust af...
MARCO OSCAR OZ I'm really interested in the history of life in general. How life began to how birds evolved to what...
CARL ZIMMER Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strengt...
MARQUIS DE SADE Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
BIBLE My life really began when I married my husband.
NANCY REAGAN Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some...
CHUCK BERRY Tis better to have love and lust
Than to let our apparatus rust.
KURT VONNEGUT I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.
KEVIN COSTNER I think we're trying as much as possible to be part of the heart and soul of Aspen,
WALTER ISAACSON I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived ...
DARIN STRAUSS If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.
HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fif...
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KATE WILLIAMS Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow
KARL KRAUS Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
KARL KRAUS

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