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I always play women I would date.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. ...

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. . . none of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with ev...

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Describing our romantic longings in 'Life preserves,' therapist Harriet Lerner shares that most peop...

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New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your lapt...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

We're not dating," Alec said again."Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, ...

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Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and...

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Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once....

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Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking g...

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It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

After discovering him in his threesome, I spent the next two weeks in bed suffering from a severe ca...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looki...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

There are many ways to get to know someone, and my favorite is seeing them naked in Happy Baby pose....

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?""Don't be silly,...

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David WeberCrown of Slaves

What's your name?""Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?

I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probabl...

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I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...

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I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands

Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends...

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People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...

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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

One o’ clock. With her fork she would tantalize the heart of an adoring artichoke, while her escort ...

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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the sm...

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When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of m...

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There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; ...

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It's all chop-change chop-change with you. Either go out with me and treat me nicely, or leave me al...

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The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.

Who're you going with, then?" said Ron."Angelina," said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassm...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?"Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Don't you understand how Cho's feeling at the moment?" [Hermione] asked."No," said Ron and Harry tog...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuadin...

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Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....

Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiti...

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Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women h...

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If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have...

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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover...

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Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, pr...

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It's funny how they thought we were dating," Colin said, glancing over at her."How's that funny?" sh...

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Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diam...

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When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view ...

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Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

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John WoodenWooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any nega...

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There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food...

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He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. D...

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A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

I understand we'll be attending your friend Miss Worthington's Christmas ball. Perhaps I'll find a s...

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Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic...

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Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you wa...

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Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I w...

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What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what t...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what y...

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We get together with people because they’re the same or because they’re different, and in the end we...

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And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about...

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He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.

We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion.Danny was touched. "But the thi...

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It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man ...

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What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it o...

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I think we're too young to be dating. I mean I don't see what the rush is." Summer says. "Yeah, I ag...

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Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating sys...

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A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of pheno...

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I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I ...

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My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

You fall in love and it completely consumes you. So a part of you is broken when that's gone. And pa...

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Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with...

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You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered f...

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You hardly know me and yet you invited me out on a date,’ said Miss Dearheart. ‘Why?’Because you cal...

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Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station...

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The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose live...

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This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't wan...

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Tina FeyBossypants

In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be s...

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And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crock...

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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we...

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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been...

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Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea