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"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."
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"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."
"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."
"She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with."
"People say hate is like a poison - but they're wrong. It's like a drug. You never forget your first hit, how it seduces you with its strength and power, and takes you completely by storm. It colors your world in light and meaning, until you wonder how you ever managed to get by without it. And then, eventually, you get to a point where you can't. It takes over your life, until hating becomes your reason for living."
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"You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever."
"When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need."
"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"
"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."
"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."
"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."
"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up."
"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
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