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The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud..
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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The ones who are not soul-mated--the ones who have settled--are even more dismissive of my singleness: It's not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say--they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation--yes, honey, okay, honey--is the same as concord.
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We're on your side, but we need the truth. The only thing that makes you look bad is you holding out on us.
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You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,
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That easy, huh?" "You just have to decide to do it and then do it," she said. "Discipline. Follow through. Like anything."
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It's every asshole's mantra: I married a psycho bitch. But I got a small, nasty bite of gratification: I really did marry a genuine, bona fide psycho bitch. Nick, meet your wife: the world's foremost mindfucker.
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Of course it was.
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Probably drove in from Mission Hills, feeling magnanimous about setting foot north of the river.
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Me gustan las reglas que tienen sentido, no las reglas sin logica
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I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want too play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.
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El sol seguia siendo ojo furibundo en el cielo. <>.
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Pero no lo dije en voz alta; a menudo no digo las cosas en voz alta, ni siquiera cuando deberia. Contengo y compartimiento hasta un extremo preocupante: en el sotano de mi vientre hay cientos de botellas llenas de ira, desespero, temor, pero uno nunca lo adivinaria al verme.
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y se que me voy enfadar: esa sensacion de inhalacion rapida, labios que se tensan, hombros que se alzan; esa sensacion de <>. ?Es que los hombres no conocen esa sensacion? No quieres enfadarte, pero te ves obligada a ello, practicamente. Porque una regla, una buena regla, una regla agradable, esta siendo quebrantada.
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La mayoria de las cosas buenas y hermosas son llevadas a cabo por mujeres menospreciadas por la mayoria.
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Eramos la primera generacion de seres humanos que jamas podria ver nada por primera vez. Contemplamos las maravillas del mundo con ojos mortecinos, de vuelta de todo. Mona Lisa, las piramides, el Empire State Building. El ataque de un animal selvatico, el colapso de antiquisimos glaciares, las erupciones volcanicas. No consigo recordar ni una sola cosa asombrosa que haya visto en persona que no me recordase de inmediato a una pelicula o a u..
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My wife was crazy. I was married to a crazy woman. It's every asshole's mantra: I married a psycho bitch. But I got a small, nasty bite of gratification: I really did marry a genuine, bona fide psycho bitch. Nick, meet your wife: the world's foremost mindfucker. I was not as big an asshole as I'd thought. An asshole, yes, but not on a grandiose scale.
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but facts were facts, and people didn't get to turn Amy into everyone's beloved best friend just because it was emotionally expedient.
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I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge? I am supposed to love Nick despite all his shortcomings. And Nick is supposed to love me despite my quirks. But clearly, neither of us does. It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love sh..
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Habia sido un comentario grosero y de mal gusto. Mi cerebro eructaba pensamientos inapropiados en los momentos mas inoportunos. Gases mentales que no conseguia controlar.
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Habian insistido que me quedara..., insistido con la misma urgencia con la que en otros tiempos se habian arrojado sobre el camarero para arrebatarle la cuenta de la cena: la hospitalidad entendida como una feroz fuerza de la naturaleza.
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estaba tan acostumbrado a estar enfadado con ella que casi me parecia algo disfrutable, como mordisquear un padrastro: sabes que deberias parar, que tan poco es tan agradable como te parece, pero no puedes dejar de hacerlo.
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But you should never put a fifteen-year-old on a witness stand in a courtroom filled with a bunch of people he knows and expect a lot of tears.
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Un monton de gente carece de ese don: el de saber cuando desaparecer de la puta vista. A la gente le encanta hablar y yo nunca he sido muy hablador. Mantengo un monologo interno, pero las palabras a menudo no llegan a mis labios.
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Y en aquel momento quise besarla, tal como la habia besado la primera vez: entrechocando los dientes, su cara ladeada frente a la mia, haciendome cosquillas en los brazos con el pelo, un beso humedo y con lengua mientras yo no pensaba en nada mas que en el beso, porque habria sido peligroso pensar en cualquier cosa al margen de lo agradable que resultaba.
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El amor hace que quieras ser un hombre mejor, vale, de acuerdo. Peor a lo mejor el amor, el verdadero amor, tambien te autoriza para ser simplemente el hombre que eres.
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Se interrumpe, se que esta a punto de mentir. Es la peor sensacion: cuando tienes que esperar y armarte de valor para la mentira.
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A veces me pregunto si esa es la raiz de su desprecio por mi: permite que vea sus defectos y me odia por conocerlos.
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el amor era como las drogas o el alcohol o el porno: no habia techo. Cada dosis debia ser mas intensa que la anterior para obtener el mismo resultado.
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La gente hace lo que se supone que debe hacer y despues espera a que los colmes con tu aprecio; son como los empleados de las tiendas de yogur helado que dejan vasos sobre la barra para que eches la propina.
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El amor deberia exigir que ambas partes de n lo mejor de si mismas en todo momento. El amor incondicional es un amor indisciplinado y, como ya hemos visto todos, el amor indisciplinado solo conduce al desastre.
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suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?
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I must do better at adoring him like I used to. Nick responds to adoration. I just wish it felt more equal. My brain is so busy with Nick thoughts, it's a swarm inside my head: Nicknicknicknicknick! And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him. Is that wrong? I don't even know anymore.
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I just figured you'd be too proud. Self-conscious and proud." I was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits,"
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Tears ran down my mother's cheeks and dripped loudly onto the leather purse she held in her lap. The woman next to her patted her hand. I slipped my notepad from my jacket pocket and began scribbling notes to one side until my mother slapped her hand on mine and hissed, "You are being disrespectful and embarrassing. Stop or I will make you leave." I quit writing but kept the pad out, feeling stabbingly defiant. But still blushing."
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I know I am going to be angry - that quick inhale, the lips going tight, the shoulders up, the I so don't want to be mad but I'm going to be feeling.
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The women who came in groups, they were frivolous, fancy, boozy, ready to have fun. The ones who came alone, though, they wanted to believe. They were desperate, and they didn't have good enough insurance for a therapist. Or they didn't know they were desperate enough to need a therapist. It was hard to feel sorry for them. I tried to because you don't want your mystic, the keeper of your future, to roll her eyes at you. But I mean, come on..
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I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years.
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You two worshipful, adoring assholes created that thing down the hall and set her loose on the world.
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or shoulders
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I was hoping Betsy Nash would disappear. Literally. She was so insubstantial, I could imagine her slowly evaporating, leaving only a sticky spot on the edge of the sofa. But she lingered, eyes darting between me and her husband before we even began speaking. Like she was winding up for the conversation. The children, too, hovered about, little blonde ghosts trapped in a limbo between indolence and stupidity. The pretty girl might do all rig..
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Before Amy and I got serious, got engaged, got married, I would get glimpses of Go's thoughts in a sentence here or there. It's funny, I can't quite get a bead on her, like who she really is. And: You just seem kind of not yourself with her. And: There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. And finally: The important thing is she makes you really happy. Back
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I prepared to get out of bed, tossing the covers aside, the sheets dank-smelling, gray from my body. I wondered how long it had been since I'd changed them. And then I wondered how often you were supposed to change them. These were the kinds of things you didn't learn. I changed bedclothes after sex, now, finally, and that I only learned a few years ago from a movie on TV: Glenn Close, some thriller, and she'd just had sex and is changing t..
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life-lessons
neglect
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Thank you, Gillian Flynn, for quoting The Sure Thing- "Nick's the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car. Nick!"
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