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Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he has yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid’s mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son’s hand. I see the pain I’ve caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then... George Saunders
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine. When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this... Anne Lamott
Candace Bushnell quote: "Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of..."
Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution. Candace Bushnell
Mitch Albom quote: "You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened"
You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened Mitch Albom
The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right. Barbara Kingsolver
Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another. Charles Bukowski
John Calvin quote: "Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out..."
Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own? John Calvin
Nora Ephron quote: "It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude..."
It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much. Nora Ephron
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "This is a terrible way to travel. I go to meetings my boss..."
This is a terrible way to travel. I go to meetings my boss doesn't want to attend. I take notes. I'll get back to you. Chuck Palahniuk
Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine. Margaret Atwood
...now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together. Graham Greene
The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on Joseph Heller
Wel you know 1ce the kids start singing at you thats a cern kynd of track youre on nor there aint too much you can do about it. Making the kids stop singing wont help its too late by then youve jus got to clinch your teef and get on with it. Russell Hoban
Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be. Dean Koontz
I’m losing the appetite for strangers. Once I would have focused on the excitement, the hazard; now it’s the mess, the bother. Getting your clothes off gracefully, always such an impossibility; thinking up what to say afterwards, without setting the echoes going in your head. Worse, the encounter with another set of particularities: the toenails, the ear-holes, the nosehairs. Perhaps at this age we return to the prudishness we had as children. Margaret Atwood

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