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Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. (...) But in fact, if you think about it, that's kind of a strange belief. Given what we know about the way people really are. Selfish and shortsighted and egotistical and needy. Why should being a perent, just in and of itself, somehow confer superior-personhood on everybody who tries it? Obviously it doesn't.
— Dec 29, 2012 09:20AM
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Lucía
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Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries feishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs.
— Jan 12, 2013 03:24PM
Lucía
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I guess my life hasn't been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they'll break my heart.
— Jan 12, 2013 12:04PM
Lucía
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The only thing that's really going to save us is to get people to change the way they think.
— Jan 12, 2013 08:00AM
Lucía
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the difference is that birds are only killing because they have to eat. They're not doing it angrily, they're not doing it wantonly. It's not neurotic. To me that's what makes nature peaceful. Things live or they don't live, but it's not all poisoned with resentment and neurosis and ideology. It's a relief from my own neurotic anger.
— Jan 12, 2013 04:16AM
Lucía
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There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
— Jan 12, 2013 02:33AM
Lucía
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The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
— Jan 11, 2013 02:40PM
Lucía
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nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special
— Jan 09, 2013 02:59PM
Lucía
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He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with the sociable genes who fled the Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.
— Jan 09, 2013 12:54PM
Lucía
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This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.
— Jan 07, 2013 02:48PM
