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My leg hurts, I wonder if it's cancer? There's a bump. I'm starting to sweat. Stop sweating. I've got to stop sweating. Can she see it dripping down my forehead? She looked at my hair line. She thinks I'm bald. Charlie Kaufman
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. Ernest Hemingway
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization. Joseph Campbell
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "One can fall in love and still hate."
One can fall in love and still hate. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jodi Picoult quote: "Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people,..."
Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step? Jodi Picoult
If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak. Charles M. Schulz
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. Socrates
Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done. Tracy Kidder
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need. Lance Armstrong
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude"
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude Eleanor Roosevelt
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent Martin Luther King jr.
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on. Frank Lloyd Wright
George Byron quote: "Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried."
Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried. George Byron
Heraclitus quote: "How can you hide from what never goes away?"
How can you hide from what never goes away? Heraclitus
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. John Steinbeck

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