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"I'd had a really bad day and you hurt me.His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, 'I'll probably do it again, Red,because I'm a man and any man can be a dick. But I won't do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I'll have a mind to that."
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Personal Development
"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."
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"Your thoughts are transparent."
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"The truth is considered hatred by those who hate the truth."
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"I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable."
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"The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves."
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"Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends."
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"Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon."
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"Honest dishonesty. That's quite the oxymoron " but I like the originality that you've brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, he added jokingly."
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"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
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"It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye."
Life
"Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel."
Family
"He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable."
Love
"When it rains," her father said "it pours."
Philosophy
"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."
Literature
"Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either."
Life
"I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way."
Family
"Go fuck yourself Judge.""Motion denied." answers the judge dryly."
Justice
"It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids."
Family
"There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?"
Ethics
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