"[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation."

-- Charles Baxter

#Pain Quotes #Purity Quotes

“As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.”
“I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change”

Source : "HBO's 'Enlightened' Take On Modern Meditation". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.nhpr.org. October 10, 2011.
“They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.”
“We judge people by their appearance so quickly, and we form opinions about people, compartmentalize people, and think we know who they are. But if you sit down and talk with someone for more than 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, no doubt whatsoever.”
“I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.”
“The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.”
“It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.”
“People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.”

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