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"We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission, a boat stays afloat until the water gets in."
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"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline."
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"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."
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"In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway."
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"We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don't know who we are in reality."
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"Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it."
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"Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are - to yourself."
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"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."
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"The thought is just as strong as the consequence."
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"Suicide is very contagious."
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"Help me give up my addiction to Hope."
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"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
Transformation
"Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died."
Grief
"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."
Irony
"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
Productivity
"Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care."
Wisdom
"Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself."
Philosophy
"Ambition is a stairway that never ends."
Ambition
"There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me."
Mindfulness
"You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre."
Creativity
"I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break."
Time
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