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I had achieved the most important things in my life when i married joan and had the sons. given the choice between joan and the boys, and being a writer, i world give up being a writer without a blink.

-Robert B. Parker

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I Had Achieved The Most Important Things

Robert B. Parker

I had achieved the most important things in my life when i married joan and had the sons. given the choice between joan and the boys, and being a writer, i world give up being a writer without a blink.

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The doctor: don't blink. don't even blink. blink and you're dead. don't turn your back. don't look away. and don't blink.

We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. so it may be asked what value is there to a human life. there is so much pain in the world. what does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...i learned a long time ago, reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something.

I think people take blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. and it's largely our fault because we called our records enema of the state and take off your pants and jacket. we were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. people wrote us off as this joke band. but the people who listened to blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. those kids that were listening to blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. but do not marry them. the things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. when it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. these men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. but do not marry them. the things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. a code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

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