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- Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just…
- I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat,…
- My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
- He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.
- Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.
- You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This…
- I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and…
- The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference…
- After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this…
- What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding…
- But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual…
- You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
- The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
- Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something…
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