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"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
"About a month after she found out about that, I got pregnant for the first time. I knew I didn't want to have a baby at all, and wanted to get an abortion. But the day I found out, I wasn't sure what to do first. I felt alone and lost and needed someone to call who I could tell. I needed help. I wasn't sure if she would talk to me again so soon after what had happened. I decided to take a chance and try calling her. When I told her, she said, 'Well, an abortion is only like $500, so go turn a couple of tricks and get it taken care of,' before she hung up on me. I probably should have called someone else, but I didn't know who else to call."
"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."
"Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life."
"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."
"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson
"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."
"Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?"
"When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped."
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
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