Susan Vaught famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.
-- Susan Vaught

#Fear #Way #Pretending
Even when you know something bad will happen, you still might not see it coming.
-- Susan Vaught

#Might #Stills
Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.
-- Susan Vaught

#Broken #Fixed
I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.
-- Susan Vaught

#Home #Space #Want

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Fear is stronger than arms.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

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