One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.
My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.
Most people behave badly when wounded. If you can remember the wounds, it is far more possible to forgive the behavior.
Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.
Lui scrisse: Io non so come vivereNeanch'io, ma sto tentando.Non so come tentare
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It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whimsies of what...
It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we only have one life
It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about Eleanor Rigby. It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
I was thankful, said my father, for the make-believe.
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop grow...
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.
I am not a bad person, he said. I am good person who has lived un a bad time.