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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
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“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
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“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
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“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Saturday morning. Hung-over as fuck. The beer fear squirms through my belly with alien tendrils and I know with absolute certainty that I have done something unforgivable.
Something apocalyptic.
Again.”
― The Transkei Run: and the Times of High Strangeness
Something apocalyptic.
Again.”
― The Transkei Run: and the Times of High Strangeness
“After arriving in America, John and Adeline continued on their tour of American Universities, leaving their daughter Ursula in the New York City area, after her marriage to the present-day, award-winning author, Captain Hank Bracker. At the beginning of their tour of the United States, John and Adeline purchased a vintage “Ford Woodie Station Wagon,” which they drove across the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. When they prepared for their return to South Africa, they had their “Woodie” loaded into the cargo hold of the SS African Moon and proudly took the car, south of the equator, with them. At that time “Classic American Cars” were quite prestigious in South Africa.”
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“Cooking vetkoek with curried mince is an art which South African tannies have spent generations getting just right. As I sat there enjoying the food, I was grateful to them all, especially my own mother who taught me me how to do it. There in my kitchen, eating that vetkoek and mince, I had that feeling I'd expect you would have when you go to a church you have faith in. I said I didn't believe in anything, that my faith went out the window, but maybe that wasn't true. I believe in vetkoek with curried mince, and all the tannies who made them. If the end of the world was coming, this was the meal I'd make.”
― Recipes for Love and Murder
― Recipes for Love and Murder
“I wanted to shout, but instead I did the dishes. In a way that was more noisy than usual.”
― Recipes for Love and Murder
― Recipes for Love and Murder
“I clutched my tin of buttermilk beskuit. I wanted to give him something to help with the shock. But he needed something else even more than these broken rusks. Something we all needed: hope. We had to have hope.”
― Recipes for Love and Murder
― Recipes for Love and Murder
“Wat drink jy?” vra Anderson se knapie nuuskierig.
“Aperol. Wil jy ‘n slukkie hê?”
“Nee dankie. Dit lyk soos Oros!”
― Die fantastiese mevrou Smit
“Aperol. Wil jy ‘n slukkie hê?”
“Nee dankie. Dit lyk soos Oros!”
― Die fantastiese mevrou Smit
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