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"The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind."
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"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline."
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"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."
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"In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway."
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"We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don't know who we are in reality."
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"Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it."
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"Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are - to yourself."
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"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."
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"The thought is just as strong as the consequence."
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"Suicide is very contagious."
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"Help me give up my addiction to Hope."
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"The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love."
Emotion
"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."
Honesty
"She stopped then and turned her face toward him and the hateful wind."
Emotion
"Not knowing it was hard, knowing it was harder."
Challenge
"Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent."
Nature
"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."
Language
"Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness."
Emotion
"Her passions were narrow but deep."
Passion
"You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.You shout the word-mind, mind, mind-over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice."
Freedom
"There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises....If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays."
Writing
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