"An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship."

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Source : Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.138, Bantam

Hugh Prather

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“Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.”
“The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.”
“As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.”

Source : 'Poems: In Divers Humours' (1598) 'An Ode'
“I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.”
“We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America.Â Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.”
“You have to play your characters, not like them.”
“The first time I go out to Nashville, ever (at this point I had only heard the rumors about what it's like) I had three writing sessions set up. The first two canceled on me. I was kind of pissed off at that point. So I just went back to my hotel room and started writing. And even though I've been to L.A. and experienced a lot of things, at the end of the day I just start to feel like I'm playing acoustically at the first bar I ever played at.”
“I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.”

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