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Men. Young men. Legal age, mind you. But young nonetheless. And it’s not what you think. When we mee...

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Clive BarkerThe Scarlet Gospels

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men...

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As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of...

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The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.

Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets mea...

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Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad

A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say...

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To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerit...

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men c...

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Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot...

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I just meant maybe you could set here and drink one of em with me.He squinted at her. You ever notic...

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Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can...

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Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really n...

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Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you beca...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

Connie’s man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda’s a bit jeering. But that is how men are! Ungrateful an...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

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Daphne du MaurierDon't Look Now and Other Stories

She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks th...

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There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...

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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This...

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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas...

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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated ...

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If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little t...

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–Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group o...

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The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depra...

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For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woma...

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David BaddielWhatever Love Means

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bush...

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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look...

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David GraeberThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of ...

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In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy...

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It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who can...

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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different ...

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There's always something funny about men chasing women.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

He's a man," Themla said."I guess that explains it.""Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetuall...

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Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.Women were more likely than men to think that their lives h...

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Dean KoontzThe Darkest Evening of the Year

Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.

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Dennis LehaneMystic River

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

Another example was relentlessly expressed during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, and...

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Time takes away the grief of men.

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. ...

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I will have papers. And whether it is one George or the other who rules in time - this land will be ...

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Diana GabaldonThe Fiery Cross

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by lovin...

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through...

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My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

I like simple men and complicated women.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is control...

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Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that ...

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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lov...

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Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I k...

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Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another qui...

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

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He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

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[On marriage and permanent attach

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Dorothy L. SayersThe Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again

He'll be cross if he sees I have been crying. They don't like you to cry. He doesn't cry. I wish to ...

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He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that clean...

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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your fa...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Collected Dorothy Parker

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

MenThey hail you as their morning starBecause you are the way you are.If you return the sentiment,Th...

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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I...

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My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping ri...

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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy...

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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has...

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International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I...

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The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwa...

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Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the re...

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...

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A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand!

Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a trai...

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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the w...

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

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E. M. ForsterA Room with a View

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the o...

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I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak...

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