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"Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble."
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"Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends."

"Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God."

"Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship."

"Man loves pleasure. But women desire purposeful commitment."

"Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart."

"And someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, 'Sir, was you calling out for me? Sir, I know I know,' and touched him."

"Everyone comes with baggage, marry the one whose baggage weighs the least."

"A relationship is not just about sex " it is much more than that. Sex is only a tool in love, not love itself."

"It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too."

"When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you."
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"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."


"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."


"(The whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned). I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness."


"The flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh."


"Nothing's news.it's the same old thing indisguise.only one thing comes without adisguise and you only see itonce, ormaybe never.like getting hit by a freighttrain.makes us realize that all ourmoaning about long lost girlsin gingham dressesis not so importantafterall."


"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."
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