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Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.
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There's always a 'she'. Isn't there?
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Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men
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All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.
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You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out.
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Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those sometimes - okay? - and get your fucking head right."Those were the last words his wife heard from him. He'd closed the door and walked down the stairs, paused on the last step. He thought of going back. He thought of going back up the stairs and into the apartment and somehow making it right. Or, if not right, at least softer.Softer. That would have been nice.
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She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.
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She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.
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Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
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