"No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman."

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Source : "My Oedipus complex and other stories".

Frank O'Connor

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“I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.”
“I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide.”
“Affectations can be dangerous.”
“Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.”
“We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.”
“The IRS said today anyone with a refund coming from their 2001 taxes will lose it if they don't pick it up by April 15th. If it is more then three years they will just keep it. How come it doesn't work that way with back taxes?”
“I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.”
“â€¦feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that weâ€™re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel weâ€™d rather collapse and back away. Theyâ€™re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where weâ€™re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, itâ€™s with us wherever we are.”

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