"Seek the best in everyone that you meet. Seek the worst when dealing with yourself."

-- Sasha Azevedo

“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.”
“I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.”
“By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because I wanted to read them. I discovered heroes like Roth, King, Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, TC Boyle, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris. These people weren't trying to "rebel against the literary establishment." They were trying to write great, high-quality books that were as entertaining and moving as possible.”
“Never be afraid of a clichÃ©, if it expresses what you wish to say.”
“If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.”
“Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading in my childhood were selling some sort of fantasy as well. Most stories are not going to tell the deep suffering of every day. No book prepared me for the suffering I would experience in life because the word "suffering" does not even describe what the suffering is. No story is going to tell you that, and no words can tell you that.”
“The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.”

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