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"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
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"Do you generally feel uncomfortable around people whom you perceive to be perfect? Is there really such a thing as the perfect person? Of course not! Our flaws are often what differentiates us from each other, and no person is perfect."

"There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness."

"The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?"

"Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can."

"There is a crack in everything God has made."

"If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case."

"I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest."

"Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections."

"It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil."
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"Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through."

"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."

"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."

"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."

"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."

"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."
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