"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead."

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I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

— Lewis Thomas