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Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent

Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

Fran Lebowitz

People, Wish, Abhorrent

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.48, Vintage

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

Fanny Kemble

Soul, Abhorrent, Immortality

Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”