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Those were good days when a man had friends in distant clans. Your generation does not know that. You stay at home, afraid of your next-door neighbor. Even a man’s motherland is strange to him nowadays.
Something I thought while examining how my father is socially and how I am, and there it is.
“[My father] murmured only, 'you can always tell when a woman is ready for sex. Oh yes. Her ears get hot.'
I looked keenly at Helen's ears. I even reached out and pinched one of them lightly, for scientific confirmation. Warmish!”
― The Buddha of Suburbia
I looked keenly at Helen's ears. I even reached out and pinched one of them lightly, for scientific confirmation. Warmish!”
― The Buddha of Suburbia
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
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“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.”
― The Buddha of Suburbia
― The Buddha of Suburbia
“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
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