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“That's the thing people never warn you about with breakups. It's the good times that really get you. In fact, they hurt worse than the bad times.”
― 32 Candles
― 32 Candles
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”
― Just Wanna Testify
― Just Wanna Testify
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― The Collected Poems
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― The Collected Poems
“Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.”
― Just Wanna Testify
― Just Wanna Testify
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