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1 " Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. "
― William S. Burroughs , Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
2 " You must prune to bloom. If the dead weight is not pruned and removed, it compromises the quality, performance, and output of the vine. When you prune what’s not working in your life, you make the space and place for renewal to happen and for new growth to spring forth. "
― Susan C. Young
3 " The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has once again been made out of femaleness, it is not ballots or lobbyists or placards that women will need first; it is a new way to see. "
― Naomi Wolf , The Beauty Myth
4 " Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. "
― , Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
5 " I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. "
