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"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."
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"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."

"And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And perhaps he has come to that stage of his instant when to live is to wander the last of the living in the depths of an instant without bounds, where the light never changes and the wrecks all look alike. Bluer scarcely than white of egg the eyes stare into the space before them, namely the fullness of the great deep and unchanging calm. But at long intervals they close, with the gentle suddenness of flesh that tightens, often without anger, and closes on itself."

"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."

"No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock."

"But, someone, please give me-who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew-give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?"

"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."
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"My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me."


"When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing."


"I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did."


"I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"


"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."


"You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present."
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