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“Perfectionism is fear in a fancy dress.”
― The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention
― The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“I wouldn't leave L.A. if the whole place tipped over into the ocean,' Mary declared. And indeed, she only left Los Angeles on urgent business. She was too tough and too fragile for anyplace else.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.”
― Wolf Willow
― Wolf Willow
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