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...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.


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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.



I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.



Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.



I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.



I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.



Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.



Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.



Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.



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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.





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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

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For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.



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The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

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