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A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#homosexuality #love

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#antagonistic #discernment #foolishness #insecure #insecurity

They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?" It was a serious question, and Eragon considered it for a reasonable span before he ventured to say, "Determination." Oromis tore the loaf in half with his long white fingers. "I can understand why you arrived at that conclusion-determination has served you well in your adventures-but no. I meant the tool most necessary to choose the best course of action in any given situation. Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects. So, no, determination cannot be what we're looking for. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#prescient #profound #wisdom #men

A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that she should bear and care for and rear children. So I am a man created for another office and work. But should I be proud because of this and say: I am not a woman, therefore I am better in the sight of God? Should I not rather praise God for creating both the woman and me also through the woman and putting me in this station? What a un-Christian thing it is that one should despire another because he is in another station or is doing something other then he is doing?... "Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled." for God will not and can not tolerate such pride and arrogance. ↗

— Martin Luther

#religion #woman #men

Can you kiss me again?” the whisper came like a plea laced with honey and need, and any desire to enjoy one thing at a time was lost in that second. “Come here baby boy and I’ll kiss you forever, ↗

— Talon P.S.

#gay-men #romance #men

Why is it women have to bring all this angst into sex? We should be more like men. In. Out. Over. Next. ↗

— Lara Rios

#romance #men

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. ↗

— David Markson

#gender #men #opera #poetry #women

The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#cynical #love #mess #relationships #love

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different... ↗

— Joss Whedon

#comic #x-men #men

The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms. ↗

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#real-men #romania #romanian #men