August 2011
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“”It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful...”
– W. S. Maugham
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I learn a lot from the books I read.
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused or frightened or even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept record of their troubles. You’ll learn from them–-if you want to....
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This is your struggle.
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’” - Clare Boothe Luce
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“Crowds are won and lost again, but our hearts beat for the diehards.”
– Fall Out Boy, Thriller
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“If you go home with somebody who doesn’t have books, don’t fuck...”
– John Waters
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“We must do that which frightens us most. Do anything until you believe in...”
– Homeless Ryan K., For Joseph
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“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” - Twyla Tharp”
– Twyla Tharp
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“I wanna cause you a miracle, when you see the way I kept God’s image...”
– Buddy Wakefield, Hurling Crowbars and Mockingbars
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This has always been yours.
“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower…poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.” - Elizabeth Smart
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This is what I've wanted to tell you.
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
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