“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“Victimology is incompatible with growth and healing. If we want one, we must be prepared to give up the other.”
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“Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.”
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“Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
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