I usually need a can of beer to prime me. - Norman Mailer

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It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't.

Norman Mailer

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Beer, Needs, Prime, Usually

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To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

Taken, Government, Judging, Welfare, Privileged, Favors

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Eugenics, Level, Levels, Raise, Suffering

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Inspirational, Law, Literature, Pay, Grow

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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Maggie Stiefvater

Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.

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Ilona Andrews

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Mallory Ortberg

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.

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Stephen Jay Gould

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

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Ellen Swallow Richards

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

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