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“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“As human beings we govern our actions with our deepest fears. But if you name that shit, you claim that shit: let enough people into your closet and you'll find there's no more room for skeletons. Leave yourself nowhere to hide and you can live your life unguarded.”
― Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
― Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
“All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.”
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“God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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