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Haruki Murakami quote: "Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who..."
Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko Haruki Murakami
Yes, because to be treated as a boy was to be taken on the old footing. I had become a new person; and those who knew the old person laughed at me. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. George Bernard Shaw
He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism--all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life... 'I have attained the age of reason. Jean-Paul Sartre
A slender acquantiance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. George Washington
It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshiping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but the husband in question. Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. George Eliot
L. Frank Baum quote: "During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my..."
During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth. L. Frank Baum
Oscar Wilde quote: "The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has..."
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. Oscar Wilde
There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was alittle boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is moreappealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. Laurell K. Hamilton
Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part. Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes. Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee. Take all myself. William Shakespeare
to find why this sheep's wool was red; and the prize was awarded to a learned man of the North, who demonstrated by A plus B minus C divided by Z, that the sheep must be red, and die of the rot. Voltaire
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. Henry David Thoreau
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
George Carlin quote: "If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something..."
If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work. George Carlin
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the..."
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. Edgar Allan Poe
In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else. Joyce Carol Oates

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