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"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."
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"The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire."
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Personal Development
"Real problems can't be fixed with a motivational poster, a cute quote or a pat on the back."
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Personal Development
"Never expect wolves to behave like sheep."
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Personal Development
"Remember that rabbit-proof fencing you told me about? You get that at a hardware store or is it special order?"
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"Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary."
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"She burst into her hotel room pulling her blouse over her head with one hand while she yanked her shoes off with the other. No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk."
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"But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get."
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"Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy."
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"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."
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"Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent."
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"A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool."
Alienation
"Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel."
Feminism
"I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
Self-Sabotage
"I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on."
Reading
"Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing until you can't take anymore, and then it's off to the nearest multistory car park in the family hatchback with a length of rubber tubing. Surely that's fair enough? Surely the coroner's report should read, "He took his own life after sober and careful contemplation of the fucking shambles it had become."
Depression
"A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners."
Attraction
"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."
Realism
"I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all."
Evolution
"There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them."
Attachment
"It had only taken me six years to change from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old, surely six years wasn't long enough for a transformation of that magnitude."
Life
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