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Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it’s any different.

Beryl Bainbridge

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
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Essentials Men Sky
What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
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Fiction Life Remember
I’ve never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children – except to bring in the money.
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Believe Children Home
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
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Childhood Fatherhood Grows
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it’s any different.
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Different Men Thinking
no one had experiences any more, only traumas.
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Exaggeration Trauma
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn’t bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
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Children Pairs Shoes
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
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Fades Glorious Past
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course – the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled
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Income Loss People
The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.
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Druggling Everything Sun Warmth
It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
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Important Men Thinking
Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.
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Fall Moon Snow
nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.
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Age Injustice Sad
Emotions weren’t like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.
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Emotion Views World
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
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Generations Lying Stealing
When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.
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Ashes Fire Passion

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it’s any different.

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