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“You have to humor them you know." Lucile sighed lightly as the door closed. "Men can be boring, but they are necessary. One needs to learn to work around them. Don't you think so?”

Book:The Dressmaker

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The Dressmaker

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“–Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men? – – –I don’t know. Could be. –The men who haven’t gotten the work they expected to get. The men who don’t get the promotion they expected. The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals. These men can’t be left to mix with the rest of society. Something bad always happens.”

Men Chaos Dissapointment

Book:Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Source: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

“And what of failure?" He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men,not men circumstances.”

Men Life Failure

Author:Steve Berry

“Man is more attractive when left to the imagination.”

Men

Book:The Pianist in the Dark

Source: The Pianist in the Dark

“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

Men Love Novel Idiosyncrasy

Book:Cobalt Blue

Source: Cobalt Blue

“How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their brisk little hurrying feet! There were endless desperate swarms of them, hurrying through the station and the streets, and an hour from now they would all be still. The waiting mid-town office buildings would swallow them up and contain them, so that to stand in one tower looking out across the canyon to another would be to inspect a great silent insectarium displaying hundreds of tiny pink men in white shirts, forever shifting papers and frowning into telephones, acting out their passionate little dumb show under the supreme indifference of the rolling spring clouds.”

Men Clouds Desperate Indifferent Hurrying Revolutionary Road Button Down Crew Cut

Book:Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“So it’s fate then?” I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, “Us being together?” “Absolutely,” Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply. Who was I to argue with Fate?”

Romance Young Adult Ya Paranormal Romance Paranormal Supernatural Supernatural Mystery Spirit Guide Series She Smells The Dead

Author:E.J. Stevens

“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.”

Men Individual Crowd

Book:Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...”

Men Cowardice

Book:madame bovary

Source: madame bovary

“Sometimes, somehow... I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth, that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.”

Men Nature Sinner Against

Author:Toba Beta

“My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher’s heart leaps when he hears the call of the roseate spoonbill, a fluffy pink wader, calling its lilting coo-coo from the mangroves.”

Men

Book:The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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