Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
Paddy Chayefsky
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J. Philippe Rushton
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Ursus Wehrli
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Alice Morse Earle
The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.
J. I. Packer
He watched with great pleasure the skill of the men, their knives quick as fish.
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Ray Bradbury
You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
Paddy Chayefsky
