Merle Shain Short Quotes

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Caring can cost a lot, but not caring always costs more.

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Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

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Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

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Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.

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When you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

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Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

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The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

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You can, after all, produce an orgasm yourself if that's what you want, so we must go to bed for something more.

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Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

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You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

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There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

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Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

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You have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

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The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

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Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

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Divorce is very expensive, both economically and psychologically as well, but it probably isn't any more so than living with someone who isn't really on your side.

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No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

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Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be, and it is possible that without them we don't recognize ourselves, or grow to be what it is in us to be.

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