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"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."
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Personal Development
"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
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Personal Development
"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."
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Personal Development
"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
"The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them."
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Personal Development
"To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver."
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Personal Development
"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."
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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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"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."
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"Humor was a good way to hide the pain."
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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
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
Soul
"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."
Solitude
"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."
Writing
"Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."
Emotion
"Now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don't want anything personal, let's just do it, I don't want to get involved, got it? she kicked off her high-heeled shoes, sure, he said, standing there, let's just pretend that we've already done it, there's nothing less involved than that, is there? what the hell do you mean? she asked. I mean, he said, I'd rather drink anyhow. and he poured himself one. it was a lousy night in Vegas and he walked to the window and looked out at the dumb lights. you a fag? she asked, you a god damned fag? no, he said. you don't have to get shitty."
Relationship
"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
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
Genius
"And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built."
Society
"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
Art
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