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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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If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

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It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for ...more

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We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

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By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart ...more

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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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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

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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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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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Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

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The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.