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"I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of the reasons for that is my living this life, which is otherwise so free of obligations. It's not at all unusual for anybody who's independently employed to crave a way of living whereby they create the structures without which their lives would otherwise start slopping around all over the place."
"The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in a family; there never is. And yet for that reason, the family is condemned as patriarchal. The goal of this sort of legislation is about the destruction of the traditional family, not just marriage."
"For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient."
"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."
"Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason."
"We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us."
"We have not enough strength to follow all our reason."
"A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?"
"So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right."
"You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason."
"He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it."
"All things except reason and order are possible with a mob."
"We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying."
"I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my instincts."
"One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it all, and that really called to me."
"Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]"
"Reason and speech we onely bring."
"Harken to reason or shee will bee heard."
"The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]"
"Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused to tell Holden Caulfield whether or not he had told Jane Gallagher what time it was, Holden Caulfield became enraged and attacked him in a fit or horological savagery, possibly because he was mentally ill and hated anyone byt him knowing what time it was."
