Weddings are hard. The drink flows and the words come out and he has to be there. A man loses his daughter to a younger man. A woman sees her son throwing himself away on a lesser woman. It is something they half believe. There’s the
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“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe." "As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe... Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.”
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“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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