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“Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“He was playing a character I had invented,
which is somewhat telling. In desperate love, it's always like this,
isn't it? In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our
partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling
devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first
place...”
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which is somewhat telling. In desperate love, it's always like this,
isn't it? In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our
partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling
devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first
place...”
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“I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.”
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“If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).”
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
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