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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."
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"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."

"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."

"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."

"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."

"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."
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