"Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by."

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Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

Mark Z. Danielewski

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“The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.”

Source : Gary A. Klein (2017). “Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions”, p.269, MIT Press
“Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.”
“This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.”
“Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.”
“All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.”
“If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.”
“Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.”

Source : "Scotty McCreery Talks Fans, Faith & Post-'Idol' Fame". Interview with Beville Dunkerley, theboot.com. June 15, 2011.

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