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To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it.
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Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or does their will for power come from their sex appetite?
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This isn't such a beautiful world that he has to stay in it and suffer. This isn't much of a world at all.
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I want you to do me a favor. I want you to hit me as hard as you can." I looked around and said, okay. Okay, I say, but outside in the parking lot. So we went outside, and I asked if Tyler wanted it in the face or in the stomach. Tyler said, "Surprise me." I said I had never hit anybody. Tyle said, "So go crazy, man." I said, close your eye.
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The damaged love the damaged.
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There were jobs so boring, you'd find ways to cripple yourself so you couldn't work.
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I knew this would happen," Marla says. "You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap."
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And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would he be in heaven?
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Can you just relax and let things happen?
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You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything."
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People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.
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A year could pass between her asking a question and my answer.
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Your name told you just how your life would go.
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The easy thing to do was give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Jump ahead ten years, and not much has changed. Ten years of therapy, and I'm still in about the same place. This probably isn't something we should celebrate.
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I don't want her falling in love with me as a voice on the phone while at the same time she's trying to ditch me as a real person.
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Please don't feel hurt, Satan, but my parents raised me to believe you didn't exist. My mom and dad said you and God were invented in the superstitious, backward pea brains of hillbilly preachers and Republican hypocrites.
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With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. None of us ever considered what life would be like cleaning up after a stranger every day. Washing dishes all day. Feeding a stranger's children. Mowing a lawn. All day. Painting houses. Year after year.
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The truth is nothing new ever happens.
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We were all so worried about our worst fears, squeezing frogs, eating worms, poisons, asbestos, we never considered how boring life would be even if we succeeded and got a good job.
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The main thing I worry about in public is maybe people can tell I'm a survivor.
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It was just one more predictable mass suicide in a world filled with splinter groups that limp along until they're confronted.
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Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire.
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Everything they believed in turned out to be wrong.
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Ten years ago, he was the hardworking salt of the earth. All he wanted was to go to Heaven. Sitting here today, everything that he worked for in the world is lost. All his external rules and controls are gone.
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Every last minute of my life has been preordained, and I'm sick and tired of it.
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I don't expect you to understand," Adam says. "You're still the eight- year- old sitting in school, sitting in church, believing everything you're told. You remember pictures in books. They planned how you'd live your whole life. You're still asleep."
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According to the agent, the secret to getting famous is you just keep saying yes.
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Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.
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Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take--what you do or say or how you choose to appear--is automatically right the moment you act.
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Not that I'm crazy or anything, I just want some proof that death isn't the end.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
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This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.
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Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed.
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How could you let me love something that was going to die?
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The secret is to not let your imagination get carried away.
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All these stupid rocks," I say, "what's your goal?" "This isn't about getting something done," Denny says. "It's about the doing, you know, the process." "But what are you going to do with all these rocks?" And Denny says, "I don't know until I collect enough." "But what's enough?" I say. "I don't know, dude," Denny says, "I just want the days of my life to add up to something."
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Making all effort resist absorption into American cult of the individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich cultural diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special-in actual, remaining no power.
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The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?"
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Still screaming. As if the stars give a shit.
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It's nothing perfect or complete, but this is what I've made of my life. Right or wrong, it follows no great master plan. All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
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Power, money, food, sex, love. Can we ever get enough, or will getting some make us crave even more?
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The left half of your brain deals with logic, language, calculation, and reason. This is the half people perceive as their personal identity. This is the conscious, rational, everyday basis of reality. The right side of your brain is the center of your intuition, emotion, insight, and pattern recognition skills. Your subconscious. Your left brain is a scientist,. Your right brain is an artist. People live their lives out of the left half o..
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