"You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything."

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Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.98, Macmillan

Sheila Heti

“If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.”
“The song and the land are one.”
“The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?”
“Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.”
“If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.”
“The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."”

Source : The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8
“I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.”
“Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.”

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