Lee Goldberg famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.
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So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.
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Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.
-- Lee Goldberg
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
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If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
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How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.
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But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
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These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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