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James Smith
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Oh, wait, it’s the Willis Tower now because this world is stupid and inconsistent and annoying!
“Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing departments did. Drug companies did.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“I can examine how, but not why, I wrote what I did, or why I had so perversely deviated from my original path. Can one, tracking and successfully collaring a criminal, truly comprehend the criminal mind? Can we truly separate the how and the why?”
― Devotion
― Devotion
“What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. I was developing symptoms. As soon as I sat down and began, I was okay.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“Faith, in its forming of images of the ultimate environment, never finds analogues that fully or with complete accuracy bring out and express its knowing.”
― Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
― Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
“I hate how, when you tell people that your friend threatened to hit you, the first thing that they say is "Well, did they really hit you?" as if threatening to hit someone isn't damaging in itself.”
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