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“We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, "I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

tags: anne-rice, clarity, drinking, drunk, drunkenness, lestat-de-lioncourt, the-vampire-chronicles, the-vampire-lestat

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“Long periods without quiet refueling leave introverts feeling physically exhausted and emotionally hollow.”
― Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

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“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli, Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology: Volume 3: Cosmology of the Bible

tags: adults, children, maturity, philosophy-of-life, progress

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“Growing up constantly being compared to extroverts can be very damaging. Most introverted children grow up receiving the message overtly and covertly that something is wrong with them. They feel blamed—why can’t they answer the question faster? And defamed—maybe they aren’t that smart. Forty-nine of the fifty introverts I interviewed felt they had been reproached and maligned for being the way they were.”[1]”
― Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

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