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“You don’t have to bring all of them,” Wilson said. “Come again?” Lee said. “You don’t have to bring their entire bodies,” Wilson said. “Their heads will do just fine.”
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
― Women
― Women
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
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“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for.”
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