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“I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake”
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“By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.”
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“We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.”
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“Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I`m afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I`d get nervous?' If not, then you`re cool.”
Source : "The Night I Partied at Prince's House ... But He Never Came Downstairs" by Chris Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 21, 2016. 
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“Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway”
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“And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.”
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“No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.”
Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.”
Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
