"I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness."

-- Augusten Burroughs

#Numbness Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Default Quotes

“Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.”
“I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.”
“I like to box. It's a great release.”
“I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.”
“There is no mystery whatever â€” only inability to perceive the obvious.”
“Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.”
“What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."”
“Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.”

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