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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.Stendhal
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I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.Toni Morrison
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A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don’t matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.Toni Morrison
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When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful forceLeo Buscaglia
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They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each other’s phantoms, each in his separate privacy has savoured the most refined of pleasures but, connoisseurs of unreality as they were, they could not bear the crude weight, the rank smell and the ripe taste of real flesh. It is always a dangerous experiment to act out a fantasy; they had undertaken the experiment rashly and had failed… .Angela Carter
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Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.Angela Carter
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Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.Toni Morrison
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Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.Toni Morrison
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Man created words to free himselfLeo Buscaglia
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By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.Angela Carter
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Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of bothLeo Buscaglia
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To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniquenessLeo Buscaglia
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Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.Toni Morrison
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Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.Toni Morrison
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Always strive to achieve and eve if you don't reach your goal in life, you will be amongst the stars.Angela Khristin Brown
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She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen and she hit me.” Though, he recalled, not sufficiently brutally to require that he tie her wrists together with his belt, force her to kneel and beat her until she toppled over sideways. She raised a strangely joyous face to him; the pallor of her skin and the almost miraculous lustre of her eyes startled and even awed him.Angela Carter
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She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.Angela Carter