"Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature."

-- Nancy Chodorow

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“People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.”
“Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.”
“Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.”
“What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.”
“Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.”
“It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work.”

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“I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.”
“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”

Source : Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner (2003). “American Splendor: The Official Shooting Script”, Welcome Rain

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