Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.

Perry Brass

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The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

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The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

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To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

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Three great ways to lose a lover:

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There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

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Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?

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Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

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Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?

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Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

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Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

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There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

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Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

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Have hot, wild sex with a friend. Then go out and do something stupid, like bowl, afterwards.

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Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

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I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

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Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

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Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

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One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

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Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

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Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

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