Alex Shakar Quotes

#1. The only spot of comfort was the lingering impression of her fingertips through the fabric of his shirt, a reminder of the good side of having skin. He cultivated that square-inch patch, tilled and tended it into a full-body embrace.

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#2. On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

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#3. You need contradictions to make an ideal.

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#4. From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.

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#5. Fred put away the phone, finished off his bourbon, and resumed watching the couple suck on the combined mass of their two tongues. He wasn't as drunk as them. Or as young. Or as stupid. He envied them on every score.

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#6. Beauty is the PR campaign of the soul.

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#7. How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do.

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#8. She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

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#9. Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

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#10. Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.

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#11. He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.

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#12. With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

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