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It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other.
“He’s probably the type of person whose favorite book was assigned reading in high school,” she says, although neither of them can remember the last time they read a book.
“Life is repetitive. Everything occurs in cycles. The waves just emulate the natural cycle of all living things. Don’t resent the repetition—embrace it!”
She’s holding a glass of pinot and the strange pleasure of carrying around a glass of wine, in her swimsuit, has made her smile all evening. She
“The self is mutable, you know?”
“You know how there’s a type of guy who won’t date women who are too funny because it makes them insecure?”
Or too smart, or too successful, or too pretty…
The truth is that the universe conspires to bless us.”
“Just because you’re free of one type of judgment doesn’t mean you’re free of other types.”
She still believes in reaching an essential part of herself through discipline: If she does everything right, she’ll find her way to some mystical nugget…a form in which her beauty is self-evident, her destiny clear, her neuroses shriveled and fallen away.
“Being in pain is incredibly lonely. When you don’t think you have the support of a partner, it becomes impossible.
