"Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything."
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"Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching."
"The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you."
"The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are."
"I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy."
"I would love for the world to be happier."
"Something big happened over the weekend. Something that affects everybody, all over the world. George Clooney got married."
"Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?"
"I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis."
"Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts."
"The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking."
"I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony."
"To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world."
"Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day."
"Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems."
"Nothing is the force that renovates the World."
"This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound."
"Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory."
"It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world."
"The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me."