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"It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?"
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"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."
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"How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?"
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"Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go."
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"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,Knew you not Pompey?"
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"Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium."
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"Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
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"So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone."
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"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water."
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"Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind."
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"Hatred is inveterate anger."
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
Fear
"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."
Creativity
"I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."
Creativity
"Memories are what you no longer want to remember."
Reflection
"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
Courage
"I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world."
Philosophy
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience."
Life
"Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car.They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it."
Awareness
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
Self
"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."
Travel
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