Or was it possible that nobody's reasons could be all that clearly defined? Maybe men and women came together… — Richard Yates
Or was it possible that nobody's reasons could be all that clearly defined? Maybe men and women came together in ways as random and mindless as the mating of birds or pigs or insects, so that any talk of "reasons" would always be vain, always be self-deceiving and beside the point. Well, that would be one way of looking at it.
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