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They say you can’t really remember pain, remembering only the fact of it, not the precise way it feel. Maybe the same thing’s true of happiness.

— William Barton

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Human society begins with what nature makes male and female mammals want from each other.

When We Were Real (1999)

Seduction’s so easy when its target has the same object in mind.

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A woman’s laughter can charm a man out of his senses.

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War, they say, is just business conducted through other means.

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There’s always a moment of transition for you, that one moment when you turn from outsider to in, when you leave your past behind and suddenly mesh with the new life you’ve joined.

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The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

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It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.

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