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No one tells you the truth about adulthood, which is that you spend most of it missing people, and only a handful of moments last.
“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
― The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
“You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.”
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at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.”
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“The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person. You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.”
― The Anatomy of Being
― The Anatomy of Being
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