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- Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell.…
- If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
- You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
- You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
- If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
- I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
- Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
- Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
- People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
- Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
- You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
- The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
- Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
- There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good…
- On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time…
- Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
- If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling…
- When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
- You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author…
- Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
- Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
- Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
- One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
- Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
- Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her…
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