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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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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

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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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You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

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There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

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Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

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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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The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

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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

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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, wh...more

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People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are mor...more

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And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

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You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.