“Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.”
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“Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL”
“There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.”
“I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.”
“Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.”
“There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”
“Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.”
“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
“Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.”
“The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.”
“Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again”
“It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.”
“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
“I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.”
“Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.”
“Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.”
“Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.”
“I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.”
“It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.”