"... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering."

-- Chad Harbach

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“I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.”
“I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write about, and that rule number one of creative writing is you have to have conflict. But if you write about yourself mostly, then if you don't have conflict, then you create it. And the older I get, the more I realize that that's not a very smart way to do this. Not to say I'm the most self destructive person on earth, but it's easy to do.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, Where is my food?”
“Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.”

Source : Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.88, Reaktion Books
“I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.”
“My mission is healing, pure and simple.”
“I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.”
“I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.”

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