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"I feel like oversized trousers on sale, not even made of good material, that no one wants to buy. They just hang in there hoping that someone someday will compromise for its low cost."
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"I have this idea stuck in my head that you have to be born beautiful in order to dream beautiful things. God didn't write beautiful on my heart. I'm stuck with all my bad dreams. Bad dreams for bad boys. I guess that's the way it is for me. Look, there's nothing I can do about it."

"That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity."

"Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity."

"I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that?"

"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."

"It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others, the way they strangle their dreams - often in the name of love."

"I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way."

"Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a straw like a spitball."

"Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others, always assuming they are second best, not enough. This is a painful realization so often they hide behind righteous arrogance."
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"Writing a story is like going on a date-you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment."

"It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note."

"Across the board at the office there was a belief, an unproved theorem, about Coinman's blind faith in Ratiram; that if one thought Coinman could willingly sip a cup of Botulinum if Ratiram wished so, it still underestimated the reverence that dwelt in Coinman's heart for Ratiram."

"People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy."

"As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words."

"A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes."
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