He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives past, that grows from them, exceeds them, and another that is original, pure, free, that is beyond the prejudice which protects us, the habit which gives us shape. He wants them to know both degradation and sainthood, the one without humiliation, the other without ignorance. James Salter
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  2. They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites, ' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get...
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  5. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave
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