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“Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.”

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Jeffrey McDaniel, born in 1967, is a renowned poet known for his profound emotions and unique style in his poetry works. His poems have won the hearts of readers with their deep feelings and distinctive style. more

“Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.”

Ifs Needs Doe Self Lasts Mets Protect Logic Including Committed Caring Treated Cups Self Centered Prevailing Disposable Unclear Dixie

Author:Bell Hooks

“She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].”

Thinking Writing Fool Cradle Cats Cradle Bokonon

Book:Cat's Cradle: A Novel

Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel

“The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.”

“He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings..." He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.”

Ifs Writing Children Helping Kids Imagine Trouble Errors Gaps Guru Sibling Manuals

Author:Nick Hornby

“Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.”

Life Stories Knowing Deprived

Book:Rainwater

Source: Rainwater

“The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.”

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