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“I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn't know the difference.”
― Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
― Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
“Josh likes to say he put the funk in 'functional'. Personally I think he just put the ass in 'embarrassing', but, hey, what do I know?”
― The Understudy
― The Understudy
“Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.”
― Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
― Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
“And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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