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Failure comes with the territory. If you’re afraid of failure or can’t handle it when it happens—and if you’re not playing it safe as an artist it will surely happen now and then—you must find another way to make a living.
In thinking back on Manhattan, I have to say so much of it was good luck. If 80 percent of life is showing up, the other 80 percent, as Yogi Berra might’ve said, is chance.
In the end this obsession for conformity leads to fascism.
In retrospect, the red flags existed every few feet, but nature provides us with a denial mechanism, else we couldn’t make it through the days, as Freud teaches us, as Nietzsche teaches us, as O’Neill teaches us, as T. S. Eliot teaches us. Unfortunately, I was never a good student.
Lara Shing Garcia
Attempts to deescalate the situation did not work, and I guess it’s easy for me to say as she was the hurt party, but where she took this rage crossed the line from understandable to unforgivable and then to unconscionable. Not only was it malignant to me but horrendous for poor Dylan, who had just turned seven and was too young to have any perspective.
Mona Shing
Should the kids be used to wreak vengeance?
Mona Shing
Do you really want to deprive Dylan of her father to punish me? Are there no limits to your vengeance?
