"Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under."
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"We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world."
"And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us."
"Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated."
"Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth."
"When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed."
"What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself."
"I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way."
"I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse."
"And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good ."
"We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry."
"It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways."
"The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access."
"Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process we can give it to humans."
"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves"
"How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way."
"That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
"I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way."
"I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142."
"He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it."