"Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone has at least a touch of dysmorphia; maybe it's impossible for anyone to ever truly know what they look like."

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Source : Paul Rudnick (2013). “Gorgeous”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.

Paul Rudnick

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“Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.
“So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".”
“I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.”

Source : Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.272, Random House
“You from within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises. Here's to beer, here's to cheer, here's to beer.”
“I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.”
“I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is.”
“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.”

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