"My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter."
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"I genuinely think I have a hugging superpower. I'm starting to master the transformative hug. I have a strange memory ability. There's a lot of information that I don't cognitively know, but that seems to rise up at moments of need. That feels like a superpower. Something that nobody knows about me is that I discovered at a young age that I could sing in two tones. I don't do this in performance, because it's something very special to me. But I've learned that it's a practice that goes back far in time."
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"Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?"
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"Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity."
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"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."
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"Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something."
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"If I jump out of bed without hugging my husband, that creates stress between us."
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"When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete."
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"So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer."
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"The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be."
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"But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today."
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"They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck."
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"I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses."
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"One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others."
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"If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake."
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"When you're taking your one-thousandth selfie of the day that might be the moment you try to kill the person by lethal hugging!"
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"I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do."
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"And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me."
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"Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together."
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"You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life."
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