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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

  • I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

  • Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.

  • Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. "Never did I think about being inside her

  • I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

  • It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

  • I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

  • There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

  • I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

  • I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

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