"One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions."
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"Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise."
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"Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence."
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"One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery."
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"If life were organized, there would be no need for art."
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"I just need to go to like an island or something."
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"You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change."
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"My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground."
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"However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless."
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"Coaches need to have a vision."
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"Everyone needs a fantasy."
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"Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this."
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"My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake."
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"Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad."
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"Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously."
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"I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work."
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"Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make."
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"If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person."
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"There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here."
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"I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything."
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