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One of his closest friends often used to say, ‘Paul’s problem is, he cannot decide if he wants to be a gangster or a fucking social worker.’
“I learn things late—and only the hard way.”
― The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
― The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
“The major stumbling block for coping well with our conflicts in living with each other is set up when we interfere with another person’s decision-making process, when we routinely manipulate our fellow man’s wants by making him feel anxiously threatened, guilty, or ignorant.”
― When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope, Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy
― When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope, Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy
“Life isn’t a merry-go-round, it’s a roller coaster.”
― No More Mr. Nice Guy
― No More Mr. Nice Guy
“Neither the press nor Italian public opinion seemed skeptical of the idea that three quasi-illiterate inebriates of marginal intelligence could have successfully killed fourteen people over a period of eleven years with the goal of stealing the women’s sex organs.”
― The Monster of Florence
― The Monster of Florence
“There’s a world we can’t see. It exists separately and concurrently with the real world. You enter this world by the offering of prayer and incantation. You live in this world wholly within your mind. You dispel the real world through mental discipline. You rebuff the real world through your enforced mental will. Your interior world will give you what you want and what you need to survive.”
― The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
― The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
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