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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

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Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life.

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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

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Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it.

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Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.

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People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.

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Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, ...more

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You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother stan...more

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And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at ...more

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It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables ...more

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What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic r...more

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What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in...more

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Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see ...more