Charles Willeford Quotes
There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
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What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for global inequality is relative growth rates between poor and rich countries.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.
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There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.
