"Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you. It is impossible to believe anyone loves you for yourself.I never believed that my parents loved me. I tried to love them but it didn't work. It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving. I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value.I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea. I thought that love was loss. Why is the measure of love loss?"
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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."
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"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."
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"A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes."
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"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."
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"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."
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"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."
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"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."
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"Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places."
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"I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium."
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"Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own."
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"The buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated."
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"The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live."
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"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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