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“we’d rather never get our hopes up. And it’s humiliating, too—right? How foolish are you to hope for the best? How pathetic is it to try to win after you’ve already lost? How naive must you be if you don’t know that humanity is dark and vicious and totally irredeemable? But the argument … is this: If those are the only stories we tell about ourselves, then those are the only stories we have.”

“I think there’s so much out of our control. Almost everything about how our lives go. But I think deciding that we’re all just on a track, that we never really had any say over our own decisions—it feels like the kind of thing “someone with a lot of regrets would need to be true. Maybe I need something different to be true”.

“What do you do when you live in a world that was built around you, and so you find yourself trapped, like one sentence in a myth, one brick in a wall, when you’re built into the fabric of a place and that place was built to keep everyone out?What’s it like to feel yourself alone in the world?”

“I think you live in a world that’s more interesting than the one most people live in,” he says, and just as my heart starts to sink with disappointment, with a kind of loneliness, he adds, “and I wish I could live in it too.”

“Our life experiences, we believe, outweigh any genetic dictates. The result has been that today we can actually work and perform with genuine self-assurance even in conditions of high stress. (Live television is nothing if not pure, undiluted, and immediate stress.)”

"كنا، نحن الاثنان، بحاجة إلى ان نغتسل بالبكاء، و لا يهم السبب الذي نبكي من اجله فقد كانت قلوبنا تمتلىء بالأحزان لدرجة ان اي شي يكفي ليكون سببا".

“some of your lack of confidence comes from a more Freudian, less genetic place. It may well come from patterns created in childhood, neural tracks will lay down memories in response to that. Think of it as a cement highway that can create knee-jerk first responses in the future. But, if you can layer that over with new memory networks, you can reroute the highway”.

“In every universe, it’s you for me. Even if it’s not me for you.”

“Is the point that all parents invariably fuck up their children for life, and there’s no avoiding it, so we should really stop procreating rather than continuing to make one another miserable?”

"لقد أبقانا إيماني قوي الروح على الرغم من تدهور قواي الجسدية. و لولا ذلك لتلاشيت محترقا مثل العشب اليابس في تلك الرياح النارية".

"… سيأتي لك يوم ترحل فيه هذه الرياح النارية و يتخفف هذا الحر. سينبعث من تحت الارض نسيم الدهور يلوح لك بيديه و عندها فقط ارفع رأسك بالحياة و سجل حضور على سطح الارض و في تلك اللحظة التالية انطلق مسرعًا نحو النجاة و أثمر و تفتح للغد".