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their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.
No one ever hates without a cause —
Because a minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary.
It even hates the other minorities – because all minorities are in competition; each one proclaims that its sufferings are the worst and its wrongs are the blackest.
You see, Kenny, there are some things you don’t even know you know, until you’re asked.’
Though Andy is slim and white-skinned, he is no weakling; his eyes sparkle sexily and he has the unaggressive litheness of one who takes a great deal of exercise in bed.
what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren’t far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.
