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- Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.
- I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
- I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.
- The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.
- The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
- What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I…
- And every last one of us can do better than give up.
- I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.
- I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she…
- I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a…
- When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly…
- The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only…
- I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
- I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.
- I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.
- What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
- The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
- Wanting to leave is enough.
- Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could…
- How wild it was, to let it be.
- Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!
- Write like a motherfucker.
- There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish…
- Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you,…
- Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento