Susan Vaught famous quotes
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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.
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Even when you know something bad will happen, you still might not see it coming.
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Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.
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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
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Fear is stronger than arms.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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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.
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There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
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If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
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