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War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing. There is just one difference. Every game is a gamble. Certainty is the last thing you want when you begin. If you are
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“Like most fedora wearers, he had a lot of inexplicable confidence.”
― Modern Romance
― Modern Romance
“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“firm takeaway from all our interviews with women is that most dudes out there are straight-up bozos.”
― Modern Romance: An Investigation
― Modern Romance: An Investigation
“There's not a dating service on this planet that can do what the human brain can do in terms of finding the right person.”
― Modern Romance
― Modern Romance
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