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"No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?"
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"We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I'm watching a horror movie, there's a pattern, a sense of control in them. I'm just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It's a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they've got a pattern you can unlock and follow. Real life's messy, and the chaos leaves you devastated in the wake."
"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."
"They (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come."
"At chaos' core lies the invitation."
"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."
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"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled."
"Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills."
"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."
"Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV."
"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries."
"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
"A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?"
"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."
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