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"I need to accept about myself that I’m a nonfiction head" — Sep 16, 2025 12:06PM
"I need to accept about myself that I’m a nonfiction head" — Sep 16, 2025 12:06PM
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― On Self-Respect
― On Self-Respect
“They gave me a name and alienated me from myself.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe their husband is about to return and need his shoes.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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