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Paula Paula said: " I'm not enjoying this very much. I thought it would have more insight into the difficulties-- I would assume it was difficult-- in allowing your child to enter into such an unpredictable and dangerous world, particularly in Dave's case, because he wa ...more "

 
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“If you let your fear of consequences prevent you from following your deepest instincts, your life will be safe, expedient, and thin.”
Katherine Butler Hathaway

Clifford Geertz
“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of lives but end in the end having lived only one.”
Clifford Geertz

“Morrison took being an outsider one step further. He said, in effect, 'That's okay, we LIKE it here. It hurts and it's hell, but it's a helluva lot more real than the trip I see YOU on.”
Danny Sugarman

Edward Gibbon
“And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting hour.”
Edward Gibbon, The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, 3 Vols

Alexei Panshin
“The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.”
Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage

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