"I felt this awful obligation to be charming……" — Peter Cameron
"I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me."
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30 Quotes by Peter Cameron
Peter Cameron has 30 quotes on this site.
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I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that…
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What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what…
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Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the…
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The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between…
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People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they…
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Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking…
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I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this…
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Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons…
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I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts,…
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I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not…
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One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.
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I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey…
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