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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity,…
— Alec Baldwin
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a…
— Tony Campolo
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Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten…
— Erma Bombeck
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
— Meryl Streep
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
— Thucydides
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
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Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood…
— Camille Paglia
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If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
— David Gest
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
— Kent Nerburn
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Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
— H. L. Mencken
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