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- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
- There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being…
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or…
- What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody…
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