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Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
Author
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the United States of America
World
Catches
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Lessons
Rest
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Life

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Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.
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No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.
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We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
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Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.
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I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.
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You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
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There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
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It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.
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And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.
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