QOTD

What He Thinks He Wants

His favourite things are power and grand passion, and the preferred amount is even more than a lot. Essentially, Mr. Aries would like to have total power and recognition in anything he undertakes. And on the side, he would highly appreciate a grand love that would make him feel like his life is a midnight movie minus the commercial interruption. Should all of these priorities fail to be immediately forthcoming, he’ll simply settle for momentary excitement and a situation in which he stands in command.

– How to Seduce the Aries Man

What He’s Like

He’s ardent and enthusiastic, impulsive and aggressive. Mr. Aries has the personality of a warrior who wants to set the world on fire. And because he can be so wildly romantic, he can also ignite quite a flame in your heart

His energy is boundless, his self-assurance astounding. He is a born leader who isn’t bashful when it comes to boasting of his achievements. At the same time, he can be both proud and supportive of yours.

Mr. Aries has a mind that moves in overdrive. He thinks faster than he can talk, runs rather than walks, and can take on more projects than ten people put together. Whatever he does, from functioning as president of a company to playing tennis, he does it ambitiously.

Essentially, he has an all-or-nothing attitude toward his undertakings. And when ne is in his “all” phase, he can be totally consumed by the emotion of the moment. Whether it’s working, loving, or simply living, Mr. Aries passions play a leading role. Even before the world has awakened, he is the knight on a charger galloping toward some intense experience. Anything less would bring on an attack of boredom and make him unfit to be around.

Generally speaking, his personality is impatient, at times tempermental, and often self-serving. Caught in the midst of an impulsive action, he can forget that it is upon people’s feelings that he is treading. Mr. Aries operates strongly from self-interest and sometimes from sheer selfishness. However, it’s precisely his “me first and perhaps you later” attitude that not only gets him what he wants, but gets it quickly. When caught in the tides of a fulminating temper, he can be truly intimidating to meeker souls. he knows it and uses it to further his goals. But when it works, he is usually too busy beginning something new to even notice.

Not only does he thrive on power, he considers it his divine right. And he’s the first to admit that probably nobody deserves it as much as he does. At the same time, he can cheerfully drive himself past the kinds of limits that would make any normal person pass out from sheer exhaustion. Essentially, Mr. Aries loves work, just as he loves to create things – that he can tell other lesser beings how to finish.

He loathes low-energy people, pessimistic souls, and dreary people who would never engage in grand schemes. At the same time, he thrives on power, startling passions, and the feeling of first love, even if it’s for the hundredth time. Although Mr. Aries can be loyal, his emotional memory does a sudden fade-out when his romantic drama starts to look more like a lengthy documentary. Since he is a man addicted to “firsts” in record time, his feelings find expression in a new grand love, career goal, or great passion. And each time he will enthusiastically attest that it is just the very best.

Although in the business world he can be tricky and at times manipulative, in romantic relationships he is honest and direct, and expects the same. While nothing makes his pulse race like a good challenge, he also likes his woman of the moment to speak her mind directly. He is much too busy to be bothered with unexpressed feelings or subtle maneuvers. Therefore, he’ll run roughshod over any female who is too timid to tell him what she wants and why. Yet at the same time, she must give him the kind of attention that will assure him that she has the best taste simply because she prefers him. Mr. Aries ego is larger than the Atlantic Ocean. At the same time, it needs to bask in a brilliant sunshine or else he’ll see to it that the tide is always out.

– How to Seduce the Aries Man

True Friends

You don’t make any true friends beyond the age of seventeen.

– James Dean Bradfield

The Fall

Then he said, ‘This fall I think you’re riding for – it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn’t supply them with. So they gave it up before they ever really even got started. You follow me?’

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

So I stop

The thing is, most of the time when you’re coming pretty close to doing it with a girl – a girl that isn’t a prostitute or anything, I mean – she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I stop. Most guys don’t. I can’t help it. You never know whether they really want you to stop, or whether they’re just scared as hell, or whether they’re just telling you to stop so that if you do go through with it, the blame’ll be on you, not them. Anyway, I keep stopping. The trouble is, I get to feeling sorry for them. I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn’t any brains. I don’t know. They tell me to stop, so I stop. I always wish I hadn’t, after I take them home, but I keep doing it anyway.

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

‘Glad to’ve met you’

Then she left. The Navy guy and I told each other we were glad to’ve met each other. Which always kills me. I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

Real Ugly Girls

I was surrounded by jerks. I’m not kidding. At this other tiny table, right to my left, practically on top of me, there was this funny-looking guy and this funny-looking girl … He was telling her about some pro-football game he’d seen that afternoon … He was the most boring guy I ever listened to. And you could tell his date wasn’t even interested in the goddam game, but she was even funnier-looking than he was, so I guess she had to listen. Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

Girls. Jesus Christ

That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

Sex Rules

Sex is something I really don’t understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

Crumby Stuff

Sometimes I think of very crumby stuff I wouldn’t mind doing if the opportunity came up. I can even see how it might be quite a lot of fun, in a crumby way … The thing is, though, I don’t like the idea. It stinks, if you analyse it … It’s really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

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