"Outside of taking care of a man’s needs, women don’t get much pleasure out of life, anyways."

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Source : Charles Willeford (2013). “Cockfighter”, p.97, The Overlook Press

Charles Willeford

#Men Quotes #Needs Quotes #Care Quotes

“No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.”
“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”
“As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.”
“The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.”
“Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt
“A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person”
“The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.”
“It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.”

Source : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 1 - July 31, 2000.

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