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• A man oughta choose his own way
  “Don’t let ya woman control you. She ain’t even ya woman, Smooches. You gettin’ distracted by potential skirt.”
• A man shouldn’t be a virgin on his wedding day
  Mr. Gregarian wanted Simon to go to church and to learn that pre-marital sex was wrong, and he wanted Simon to believe in all that stuff. But he wanted Simon to fuck a broad.
• A man’s gotta have composure
  Vietnam was like a stencil in his mind, inscribing itself upon a’ry sensation that sat still long ’nuff.
• A peremptory conception of so-called manhood
  T’was Buck’s turn to snort like a jaded pony and make a masturbatory hand gesture.
• Alyssa made him feel like he had a life ahead of him.
  Back then, before all that went down, he was convinced Alyssa was who he should have been with all along.
• Authority was a double-edged sword
  If word got out that nobody was protecting this beach, they would all come do and do the same thing. This area’d be crawling with gropers and rapists. None of the women’d be safe.
• Big Eddie’s shoulders were soaked in sweat and splattered in grease
  American barbecue tasted wrong if cooked by a clean man or any kind of woman.
• constituates
  A wife constituates half the puzzle men is commanded to complete.
• Craving sin was just as much a sin as committing it
  He’d be able to afford a proper wedding and a home on a farm, and he could build a life with her, a godly life.
• He kept one hand covering his crotch
  The gym bros were a bunch of macho chads with chins and shoulders and big swinging penises that flopped between their legs like sausages too thick for their casings. His just sort of poked out like an escaping worm. He felt shriveled.
• I ain’t bullyin’ no one. You a grown man. Kinda.
  You spend all day telling them how to spend their life just so you can go home to what I’m guessing is a sad little apartment all by yourself, microwave a sad little TV dinner, lift your little weights like a fucking convict. Hey, how much furniture do you have that isn’t a bench press?
• If you a man, you gotta protect yaself
  “If you a man, you gotta protect yaself. If you can’t, you either pay someone else to or you ain’t gonna be protected,” he said. “Ain’t nothin’ wrong wit’ payin’ for protection.”
• Jacking off is only okay if you got hard accidentally and needed to do it to “relieve an erection”
  Bill was all about erections — he said a man shouldn’t be guided by lust, and jacking off too much was being guided by lust.
• Kareem should just get tougher, if his bootyhole hurts too bad
  A real man handled his shit and ain’t avoid a fight from a bigger man, Buck do say. He knew that was easy for him to say, as he was the bigger man in every interaction. But still, a man shouldn’t run.
• Lace-fried fluff
  Must everything be castrated down to parasitic orchids, soft edges and understated wallpaper?
• Mr. Gregarian said that was how he wanted his boys raised
  Mr. Gregarian only wanted his daughter Miriam to live up to the expectations of Armenian Orthodox Christianity. He wanted his sons to pretend to.
• Old ladies is oown this Earth to dis’pprove
  “Her mama ain’t nevuh gunna like nuffin’. That’s how women is, dummy. Old ladies is oown this Earth to dis’pprove.”
• On the code of the good man
  A good man’s code was ’bout defending women ‘gainst the fellers who ain’t got the good man’s code. Sometimes even the men who talked like they respected women was the ones who least respect ’em.
• On the downlow
  Raython’s father had a lot of similar rules, different things that made someone a real man or not.
• One craves the vitality of man
  It is that fact that feels raw and acute in women of a certain age.
• Rocky could turn the wives out on their backs
  A man who couldn’t pay his debt ain’t enough of a man to defend his wife either. Rocky wasn’t like that. He was no rapist.
• She won’t get less played-out over time
  A man shouldn’t tear up over a female, not even his daughter. What kinda bullshit is that?
• The bartender was an old lady, not even a proper bartender neither
  A man shouldn’t drink in a place with a cartoon mascot, Tyrell thought, eyeing the big-eyed giraffe on the wall.
• The worst thing a man can do to a woman is respond to her provocations
  That was the whole point of filling a cantina with beautiful women in skimpy clothes, after all. They were here to tantalize and tease. Ernie was a deadbeat not because he stared but because he did not hide it. The worst thing a man can do to a woman is respond to her provocations.
• Trivia ante momentum
  Trivia ante momentum is the motto of womanhood, after all, and garden parties were the height of feminimity.
• What happened to the days when college boys lifted weights?
  It looked like a Nickelodeon show had exploded, with perky young bodies and skinny arms everywhere, haircuts more complex than any man had a right to.
• Young men are drowning in a male-strum of toxic cities
  He done share prison cells with lotta handsome young things like Rico, with tasteful muscles and cute tattoos and a tight ass you could bounce a kitten off of.
• Youthful men froth forth
  Young ladies immanently shrink from the freedom of the future, while youthful men froth forth with the vigors of the eternal now, yet elder women tendrilously transcend their present and old men are bound by their pasts.