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"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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"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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"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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"The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love."
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"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."
Honesty
"She stopped then and turned her face toward him and the hateful wind."
Emotion
"Not knowing it was hard, knowing it was harder."
Challenge
"Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent."
Nature
"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."
Language
"Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness."
Emotion
"Her passions were narrow but deep."
Passion
"You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.You shout the word-mind, mind, mind-over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice."
Freedom
"There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises....If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays."
Writing
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