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“All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.”
― Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
― Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
“Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem, I know I'm being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It's true—rhyme's a completely bankrupt device. It's just wishful thinking. Nostalgia.”
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― Old School
“I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.”
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“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
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“You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.”
― Carnet de Voyage
― Carnet de Voyage
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