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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."
"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."
"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."
"We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy our hope. Nothing in the way of the blackness. It sinks to the bottom as the lead weight that is despair. We look forward such a short distance that our spirit is myopic, not to be corrected by any lens within our world."
Explore more quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
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