"We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort."

-- Dorothy Day

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“It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.”
“Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.”
“Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.”
“I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.”

Source : "Best Friend Forever". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. September 22, 2006.
“My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.”
“I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe. I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.”
“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.”

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