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If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
“But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?”
― Annie on My Mind
― Annie on My Mind
“Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock. They make love between eight and ten at night. They work forty hours a week, read the Sunday paper on Sunday, play chess on Tuesday nights. When their stomach growls, they look at their watch to see if it is time to eat. When they begin to lose themselves in a concert, they look at the clock above the stage to see when it will be time to go home. They know that the body is not a thing of wild magic, but a collection of chemicals, tissues, and nerve impulses. Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock. As such, the body must be addressed in the language of physics. And if the body speaks, it is the speaking only of so many levers and forces. The body is a thing to be ordered, not obeyed.”
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“The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.”
― An Unquiet Mind
― An Unquiet Mind
“the forgettable, in-between moments in which nothing seemed to be happening but whose absence was singularly unfillable”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Love is Temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you. Changes its mind. But hatred now, That's something you could use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but hatred cradles you.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
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