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“What makes it unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck

“I've always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them.”
― Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood

“People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

“For years, for most of my recollected life, I'd walked carefully over a subterranean well of boredom and hopelessness that lay just beneath the thin outer layer of my imagination. If I'd stood still too long, if I'd given in to repose, I'd have fallen through. So I'd made things, gone to clubs and movies. I'd kept changing my hair.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World