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"And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already--and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing...I'd rather be alone."
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"And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already--and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing...I'd rather be alone."
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"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
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"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
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"It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself."
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"Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. Respect yourself by respecting others."
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"Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity."
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"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self - respect out of the equation."
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"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing."
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"To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first."
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"The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself."
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"American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses anything, has lost anything. I find that very sad. Do you know what I mean?"
Loss
"The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport."
Future
"All tastes are expressions of belief."
Philosophy
"Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me.'Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one."
Technology
"I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage."
Education
"I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about the opera, have strong opinions about the relative rankings of Renaissance painters, an encyclopedic knowledge of the English civil war, of French wines--I feel an anxiety that nudges beyond the envious into the existential. How did she find the time?"
Psychology
"When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it's a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears."
Society
"You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition."
Psychology
"I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric."
Creativity
"Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources."
Life
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