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Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still…
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But the past is long, and the future is short.
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I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited…
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
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I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this…
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I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined,…
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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is…
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How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an…
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Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.
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Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
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I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary…
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s…
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There are times when goodbye does not seem very hard to say, when not a tear is shed, when parting is like…
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But an ordinary thing, history imma make. typically, those great have predetermined faith. Mostly 'cause niggas hate you, tryin to fill up…
— Wale
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