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“The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“It takes two to tango” isn’t even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on his or her own. But the Theory of Mutual Blame arose sometime before Doc was even born. Perhaps it was a takeoff on Freud’s seduction theory or the more generic practice of blaming victims for being alive. Its origins were unclear, but no one had ever had to take full responsibility for their own actions since.”
― Sarah Schulman, Empathy

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays