Merle Shain Quotes

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  • Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

  • But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

    Eye   Men   Sight  
  • Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

    Moon   Names   Rockets  
    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

    World  
  • Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

    Humility   Men   Play  
    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.

    Anger   Passion   Night  
  • One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

  • There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the problems they'd prefer. There need not be one rule for all. Infidelity is enlarging and fragmenting and very very dangerous, but it has been known to retrieve people as well as marriages, so it can't be only bad.

    "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.
  • We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.

    Spring   Promise   Silent  
  • Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.

    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.

  • There are some decisions in life that only you can make.

  • Some men are more perfect than others.

    Men   Perfect  
    "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.
  • Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

  • The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.

    Strong   Men   White  
    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

  • The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

    Men   Done   Kind  
    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.

    Comfort   Roles   Chance  
  • Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

    Sex   Deep Love   Fire  
    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

  • Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

    Love   Fear   Heart  
    "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.
  • The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.

    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

  • Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

  • It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

    Strong   Taken   Mean  
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