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#fridayreads The Life and Music of James Brown

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#fridayreads That could be one paradoxical virtue of old age, I suppose: the memories which used to frighten us, sadden us, gradually lose their power to be so devastating.

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He lacked the ability to burn all those stories and begin others from scratch, starting from zero until coming up with a fair copy at last. He lacked what it took to die at least once, which is what every writer needs before setting himself to write...

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And now, there before me, was the dictator who had been defeated at a game governed by his own rules, all because his people finally said no.

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He was reluctant to see a therapist, afraid that unhappiness might be the true seed of his creativity and, without it, he would have nothing to write about. Mark "tried to reassure him that psychiatrists weren't nearly that good."

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There were no classical heroes in twentieth-century total war, only victimizers and victims.

And Kurt was afraid he had just witnessed a glimpse of his own future too. "Kilgore Trout is the lonesome and unappreciated writer I thought I might become". (Ted Sturgeon was inspiration for Kilgore Trout)

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My duty is to make sure every child has the same chance for health at birth. But look what happens after these innocent children grow up. Who is telling them these things that turn them into enemies rather than friends?

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"People need things like that to go on living--mental landscapes that have meaning for them, even if they can't explain them in words. Part of why we live is to come up with explanations for these things."

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"What did it mean for a person to be free? She would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?