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- Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and…
- I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
- That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
- This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in…
- I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems…
- You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing…
- Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't.…
- When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
- You know what is the worst thing about being rejected? The lack of control. If I could only control the where and how of being…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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