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In order to deal with that double inevitability, Christ himself (if ever he let himself get mixed up in Haitian affairs) would be as armless as the Venus de Milo.”
“I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.”
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“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
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“This side of passion was my first perversion. The tendency toward excess veered out of control into bulimia, that state of fear and desire, that violent crashing back and forth between hunger and the abortion of hunger, between taking in and throwing back what is most needed and instinctively desired: food. The bread of life.”
― Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
― Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“No one alive knows who was born first, and so no one knows in which body he dwells--the original or the copy.”
― The Archive of Alternate Endings
― The Archive of Alternate Endings
“You don't just get it, the way you just get a cold; you take it into your head, consider it as an idea first, play with the behaviors awhile, see if they take root.”
― Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
― Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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