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“If you don’t know how to self-love, if you were never taught how, like a lot of us were never taught how, then you will attempt to fill that void with all kinds of things.”

Book:How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth

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“Along the top of the soot-darkened wall of the parking area, barbed wire lay coiled, as though even the littered and unlovely motel lot posed such threat—or value—that it was immediately at war with the rest of the world. For Charlie, this seemed to prove the futility of the dreams presented in the department store windows he had walked by earlier... You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying off to find garbage to eat, another rat to hump, making a nest in broken bricks, and soiling it sourly that one's contribution to the world was only more excrement.”

Void Within

Book:Anything Is Possible

Source: Anything Is Possible

“If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.”

History Seventies Sixties

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f--k are you?”

Seventies Loss Of Innocence

Book:The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!

Source: The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!

“If I'm an archangel, you can hide under my wing until the sun comes up”

Drugs Angels Seventies Teenagers Prostitutes Runaways Hustlers Runaway Teens

Book:HSTQ: Fall 2020

Source: HSTQ: Fall 2020

“Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsening. Living through that time, we didn’t see that. We believed in our capacity to grow a great country. A just society.”

Seventies Guatemala Guatemalan Civil War Ixcan Land Reforms Todos Santos

Book:La Chiripa

Source: La Chiripa

“I never use the word 'sex' in my novels - that is not what romance is about. It's about love and emotion. All my stories were different but they all had a happy ending - the perfect finish to any romance.”

Writing

Author:Jean S. MacLeod

“Is that a quote from a seventies Swedish porn? In that case: haven't seen it. What's the title?”

Humor Seventies Dark Humor Swedish Porn Title

Book:Quotes and Thoughts

Source: Quotes and Thoughts

“The idea of betrayal was in the air. The Summer of Love had migrated, in its drug-resistant strain, to the Connecticut suburbs about five years after its initial introduction.”

Seventies

Book:The Ice Storm

Source: The Ice Storm

“There was an urge growing through the Seventies - and perhaps after all it was the normal urge of the British - to look for offence, to feel morally affronted, and to make someone suffer for it.”

Morality Hypocrisy Seventies Offence 1970s

Book:The seventies: Britain's inward march

Source: The seventies: Britain's inward march

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