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Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

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You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year l...more

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Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

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To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the lett...more

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All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil. As each subsequent c...more

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...,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ulti...more

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Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

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Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

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No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find o...more

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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

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How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as...more

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You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the f...more

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They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

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We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

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I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the han...more