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"I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded."
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"How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover."
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"We do not actually know other races, we only know our judgements."
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"By now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago."
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"Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad."
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"There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end."
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"Ask a sage, he will explain.Ask a fool, he will complain."
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"A judgmental heart keeps listening to the things that annoy."
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"To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed)."
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"It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression."
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"The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging."
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"I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more."
Reflection
"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."
Healing
"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
Creativity
"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."
Life
"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."
Time
"Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long."
Relationship
"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."
Love
"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
Marriage
"Talking about my fears to others feeds it."
Emotion
"I have stitched life into me like a rare organ."
Life
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