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"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."
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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state."
"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
"It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities."
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story."
"When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul."
"Burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it."
"Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama."
"But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child."
"The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November."
"Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless."
"I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space."
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