"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

-- James Thurber

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“A man can preach no better than he prays.”
“Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.â€ A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. â€œGoodness, I didnâ€™t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I donâ€™t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?”
“Outside of taking care of a man’s needs, women don’t get much pleasure out of life, anyways.”

Source : Charles Willeford (2013). “Cockfighter”, p.97, The Overlook Press
“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.”
“True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.”
“The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.”
“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
“Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.”

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