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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over,…
— Charlotte Sophia Kasl
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Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
— Terry Pratchett
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If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us…
— Ray Bradbury
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U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?
— Haki R. Madhubuti
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It's funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we can never really know what's ahead though we never…
— Anna McPartlin
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How we survive, is what makes us who we are.
— Tim McIlrath
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in…
— Jesmyn Ward
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The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who…
— Ray Nagin
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We survive our way through basketball hoping the # Lakers will survive and we hope for the # Kings and for the…
— Vin Scully
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We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans…
— Thomas Berry
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Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to…
— Ramona Koval
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