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"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."
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"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."
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Personal Development
"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."
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"To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver."
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"Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life."
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Personal Development
"The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them."
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"Humor was a good way to hide the pain."
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"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."
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"Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me-that ship has sailed."
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Personal Development
"Faith and hope remove worry, anxiety, and fear. Human life becomes very painful and burdensome if a person has no one to trust and love. Then why should it bother an atheist, if a mother who just has lost her child, takes up a doll of baby Jesus or Krishna and pampers it like her own child, while in the process she actually succeeds in coping with her traumatic situation!"
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"There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were."
Behavior
"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."
Solitude
"Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."
Emotion
"When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity."
Wisdom
"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."
Expression
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
Art
"Jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her."
Relationship
"And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw."
Emotion
"In this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck."
Philosophy
"I had never been a dresser. My shirts were all faded and shrunken, 5 or 6 years old, threadbare. My pants the same. I hated department stores, I hated the clerks, they acted so superior, they seemed to know the secret of life, they had a confidence I didn't possess. My shoes were always broken down and old, I disliked shoe stores too. I never purchased anything until it was completely unusable, and that included automobiles. It wasn't a matter of thrift, I just couldn't bear to be a buyer needing a seller, seller being so handsome and aloof and superior. Besides, it all took time, time when you could just be laying around and drinking."
Lifestyle
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