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"I like simple men and complicated women."
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"A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."
"Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels."
"Art is good, but happiness is better."
"There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference."
"I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia."
"I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees."
"I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it."
"I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day."
"I think I'd rather be liked than loved. It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like. So, I hope you like me."
"I try to avoid teaming up with goddesses who eat roadkill. It's one of my personal boundaries."
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"Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain."
"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
"It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then he is upside down. Then he is right side up. You shoot at a series of images conveyed to you through a metal tube. The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder."
"Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?"
"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted."
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."
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