“The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.”
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“It takes two to tango” isn’t even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on his or her own. But the Theory of Mutual Blame arose sometime before Doc was even born. Perhaps it was a takeoff on Freud’s seduction theory or the more generic practice of blaming victims for being alive. Its origins were unclear, but no one had ever had to take full responsibility for their own actions since.”
― Empathy
― Empathy
“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
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