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"I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways."
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"What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him."
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"Every goal has a road block, that is our fear of failure."
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Personal Development
"We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before."
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"Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it."
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"The whole thing could have been uncomfortable if all your wishes were to be drowned in to the sea or passed through a heart of a lion that shed not the innocent blood."
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Personal Development
"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
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Personal Development
"Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over."
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"Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."
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"People simply say "Struggles bring you success, but they do not understand that those struggles certainly fuck us too."
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"You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster,and nobody is so worriedabout you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading."
Passion
"I love you. Let's get this over with."
Love
"Every ghost has a story. Monsters are nothing without mythology."
Fantasy
"Standing in the spotlight, surrounded by all my selves, each of them naked and vulnerable before your lens, I want to be split open and reminded of shame. I know that sounds selfish, but I'm allowed to be selfish 'cause we're talking about photography. Do you honestly believe I don't see it for what it actually is: Exploitative? Exploitation is the nature of the beast, whatever the hell that means."
Art
"Regret, albeit raw and relentless, is almost always unremarkable."
Regret
"The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There's an ethics to projection, an unhinged sense of honesty. Honesty is complicated. The truth is fascinatingly flexible. Lying is boundless. It knows no limits. People lie all the time. Lying is an instinct. It's human nature. We lie to each other; we lie to ourselves. It isn't right, but we do."
Psychology
"In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else."
Cinema
"I need to move. I don't fit in here. I almost tried a juice cleanse once, but quickly remembered that I could starve, and was starving, myself for free."
Change
"Years from now, I will pass this same park, and I won't remember any of this.Instead, I will feel something like a spark- a heat like Augustin a suburban town,and a desire to groweven when I know I'll be cut down."
Growth
"I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict."
Trust
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