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Quote from Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
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Quote from Raymond Chandler, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.”, February 19, 1938)
Quote from J. Cornell Michel, Jordan’s Brains: A Zombie Evolution
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
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Quote from Mirabai Starr, The Showings of Julian of Norwich: A New Translation
Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance…But it is also more than that: it is a crucible for transformation. Each trial, every loss, is an opportunity for you to meet suffering with love and make of it an offering, a prayer. The minute you lift your pain like a candle the darkness vanishes, and mercy comes rushing in to heal you.
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Quote from Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
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Quote from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Quote from Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories
The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It’s the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life
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