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"Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves."
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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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"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."
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"Suicide is very contagious."
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"Help me give up my addiction to Hope."
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"To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way."
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"It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality."
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"The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
Religion
"As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split."
Art
"When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it."
Gratitude
"I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth."
Insight
"You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed - so you were a good man just the same."
Morality
"Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow."
Economics
"Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes."
Art
"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."
Storytelling
"Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away...She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."
Mental Health
"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
Talent
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