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"In some ways, forcing me to leave was the best thing that could have happened to me. In other ways, it was a disaster. I'm still glad they did it though, because I think I might have just died if I had stayed at the coast. Although I ended up there a couple years later, when my mother relapsed on a whim, I think I needed that two years away from that horrible little coastal town where time is frozen and ideas creep forward too slow to notice any progress."
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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."
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"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past, and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."
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"When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done."
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"If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress."
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"Change in ourselves equals change in our society."
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"Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate."
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"Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever!"
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"Everything is only a transition."
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"Experience is the opposite of education."
Experience
"Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there."
Hope
"The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too."
Trust
"The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they."
Healing
"I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below."
Emotion
"What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bit as unique to you as your fingerprints.This is the truly amazing feat because you are literally the only person capable of doing that. Only you know all the parts to your story and only you can pass it on for others to hear if you choose to."
Storytelling
"Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though."
Diversity
"If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more."
Desire
"Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends."
Journey
"When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing."
Heartbreak
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