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Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.
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It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
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Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.
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We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must build character in peacetime because there is no time in war. Character is the most important quality you can find in any person, but especially in a soldier. It is the foundation that will get anybody through anything he may encounter. Reputation is what people think you are; character is what you are- that is the staying power.
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I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.
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I want a girl with extensions in her hair, Bamboo earrings, at least two pair, A Fendi bag and a bad attitude, That's all I need to get me in a good mood. She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang, I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing.
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With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
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I can get pissed off very easily.
