"All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it."

-- Anne Lamott

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“You realize mortality is everywhere.”
“The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.”
“I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.”
“The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.”
“I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.”
“You guys are lucky, cuz in Europe, like you can show ***** on TV and like in magazines and what not. We're Americans so the slightest, the slightest glimpse of a nipple will...”
“Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.”
“The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?”

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