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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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Personal Development
"Your thoughts are transparent."
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Personal Development
"The truth is considered hatred by those who hate the truth."
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Personal Development
"I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable."
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Personal Development
"The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"I danced alone for a couple of years, and came to believe that I might not ever have a passionate romantic relationship-might end up alone! I'd always been terrified of this. But I'd rather not ever be in a couple, or ever get laid again, than be in a toxic relationship. I spent a few years celibate. It was lovely, and it was sometimes lonely. I had surrendered; I'd run out of bullets. I learned to be the person I wished I'd meet, at which point I found a kind, artistic, handsome man. When we get out of bed, we hold our lower backs, like Walter Brennan, and we laugh, and bring each other the Advil."
Relationship
"It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there."
Grace
"I am positive of only a few things in life, and one is that if you want to have a decent middle and old age, you have to get exercise almost every day."
Health
"I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark."
Grace
"No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into."
Books
"Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer-the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That's all you need."
Faith
"One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break."
Parenting
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."
Life
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
Diplomacy
"It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you."
Trust
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