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"I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry."
— Marya Hornbacher (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia)

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"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

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"Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

tags: life
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"Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Crossing)

tags: god
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"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

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"Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting."
— Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses)

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"How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?"
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

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"When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

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"No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

tags: beauty, pain
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"When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

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"The rain falls upon the just
And also on the unjust fellas
But mostly it falls upon the just
Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas"
— Cormac McCarthy (The Stonemason)

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"I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone."
— Cormac McCarthy

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"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."
— Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses)

tags: forgiveness, honor, men, women
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"Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

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"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

tags: father, god, son
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"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

tags: luck
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"Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty."
— Cormac McCarthy (Cities of the Plain)

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"Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

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"I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

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"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
— Franz Kafka

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"I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world."
— Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems: Volume Two)

tags: lead
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"The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus."
— Mary Oliver

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"I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together"
— Billy Collins

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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny."
— Frank Zappa

tags: humor, jazz, music
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"If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it."
— Frank Zappa

tags: life
91 people liked it

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
— Frank Zappa

tags: communism
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"There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over."
— Frank Zappa

tags: religion
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"Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it."
— Frank Zappa

tags: art
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"There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it."
— Frank Zappa

tags: censorship, dirty-words
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"I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out."
— Frank Zappa

tags: beauty, ugly
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"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

tags: love
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"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
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"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

tags: god, house, religion
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"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

tags: greatness
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"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
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"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing
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"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, satan
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