"It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men."

-- Earle Birney

#Reality Quotes #Men Quotes #Dancing Quotes

“For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.”
“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
“Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when I need a break, and when the break starts to get too long. I known how hard I am allowed to push myself.”
“... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles again? She has like a million. But every one of them means something to me. Isn't this how people used to fall in love? I know we're living in Rubenstein's America, like you keep saying. But doesn't that just make us even more responsible for each other's fates? I mean, what if Eunice and I just said no to all this. To this bar. To this FACing. The two of us. What if we just went home and read books to each other?”
“I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.”
“Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.”
“In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.”
“Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.”

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