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Wayne Purvis
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“I know that good Muslims didn't smoke weed or snort coke or drink champagne but I was going through an awful lot of shit. I'm sure Allah knew that my shit was just overwhelming and that I wasn't strong enough then to deal with it”
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“Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong”
― Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
― Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
“Time is a membrane, a connective tissue, and it can be bruised. Time can't heal all wounds:Time is all wounds. Only love and forgiveness heal all wounds”
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“Loyalty is something you need for things you don't love enough. When you love enough, loyalty isn't even a question.”
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“Harry Potter books are generally passed off as great literature, since most adults are now only capable of reading children's books. Television programming targets the lowest common denominator in order to sell products to the largest number of people. The less informed the population, the easier they are to manipulate. Fed a constant diet of "entertainment" sans any intellectual challenge, the mind stops growing and starts to wither”
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Wayne’s 2025 Year in Books
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