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What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking. Jodi Picoult
Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities, attempts to be gay, little petulances, feelings of loss, their dull and empty witticisms so soon forgotten: Ah, for what? I knew that the sound of silence was everywhere and therefore everything everywhere was silence. Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all? I staggered up the hill,... Jack Kerouac
Walter Benjamin quote: "The distracted person, too, can form habits."
The distracted person, too, can form habits. Walter Benjamin
Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together and embracing when they parted, the people who dined together with so many smiles, you will scarcely believe me, but he imagined that they were extracting from all that congeniality great store of satisfaction. Thornton Wilder
The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident. Dave Eggers
In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were Nicholas Sparks
Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink. Chuck Palahniuk
To many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a particular influence, subduing them into receptiveness. George Eliot
The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall. Augusten Burroughs
Michael Crichton quote: "At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself..."
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job. Michael Crichton
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you. Charlaine Harris
Terry Prachett quote: "She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time..."
She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person. Terry Prachett
Anton Chekhov quote: "Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by..."
Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. Anton Chekhov
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. Epictetus

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