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I was upset, which was I felt like she had turned into some kind of weirdly responsible, conservative adult, which was never our plan.
“I don’t believe in honors, it bothers me, honors bother, honors is epaulettes, honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. I can’t stand it, it hurts me.”
― The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
― The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
“It could drive you mad to wake up to the fact that your whole life has been about chasing some false goal.”
― Impossible Vacation
― Impossible Vacation
“I still don’t know whether there are more hard or soft things in the world,”
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
― How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like
― How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like
“You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
― The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
― The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Ask Anne Lamott - Thursday, December 12th!
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