Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
PAT CONROYAmerican men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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