Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He climbed...
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John Steinbeck
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.
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P.c. Cast
Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped into his eyes. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He grappled for the nearest...
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Ed Lynskey
A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that she should bear and care for and rear children. So I am a man created for another office and work. But should I...
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Martin Luther
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a...
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Candace Bushnell
More Quotes By Alexander Pope
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
