There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no wa…

Alan Watts
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There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it. ✨ Alan Watts (1996). Myth and Religion: The Edited Transcripts, p.94, Tuttle Publishing
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