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"You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you."
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

"Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage."

"I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life."

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

"We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic."

"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."
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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"

"Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways."

"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."

"And I have to say, books haven't helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there's always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is, Well, it's just you. And when you go, it's gone. Nothing abstract about it."

"In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!"

"Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this."

"Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself."

"Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs."
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