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Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

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Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

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Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to p...more

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Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

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Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people beli...more

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Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' Yo...more

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Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

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Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' Yo...more

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There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools...more

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I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.

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How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

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Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.