I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
("Beach Music")
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.Pat Conroy
He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
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Every industry will be transformed by this demographic shift. In addition to retailers, companies in business sectors such as consumer products, healthcare, real estate, technology, financial services, and travel and leisure will find that aging consumers present tremendous challenges -- and tremendous opportunities.
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It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.
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I always noticed that the actors are always better looking than I am or ever was.
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As long as I can remember, costs continually increased. Periodically, we switched plans to mitigate some of the expense. We probably switched plans four different times in the past 10 years.
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