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Well, that happens in fairy tales, doesn’t it? In real life, when a manager fucks up and ruins a million working people’s lives, when he bungles so badly the company loses a decade’s profits, his Christmas bonus turns up a little short. That’s all.

— William Barton When We Were Real (1999)

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

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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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