“We all have the right to cherry-pick the advice given us in order to do exactly what we wanted to do in the first place.”
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“Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice.”
― Attempting Normal
― Attempting Normal
“But then again, what do I know. I project. Then I judge.”
― Attempting Normal
― Attempting Normal
“People don’t talk to each other about real things because they’re afraid of how they’ll be judged. Or”
― Attempting Normal
― Attempting Normal
“Notebooks. There are dozens of notebooks. I always carry notebooks with me. I scribble in them in a barely readable scrawl. I do not write jokes. I write moments. Thoughts. Fragments that I have to sweat over as if they’re cryptic texts in a lost language when I try to interpret them. That shouldn’t be part of my process—decoding my own writing—but it has been for my entire life. What does that say about me? Why can’t I make it easy? I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed.”
― Attempting Normal
― Attempting Normal
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