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«I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.»

Author: Derek Jarman (Artist, Author, Film Director) | Keywords: alleviated, alleviates, morphine, ostracism

«Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.»

Author: Lewis H. Lapham | Keywords: credence, disgrace, iconography, individualism, individualist, individualists, instances, lend, maverick, mavericks, misfit, misfits, mistaken, ostracism, painted, publicized, rigorous, rugged, rugged individualism, rugged individualist, sore, spoilsport, thumb

«Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women.Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.»

Author: Adrienne Rich | Keywords: extreme poverty, forcibly, heterosexuality, imposed, ostracism, psychosurgery

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