"Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic."

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Libba Bray

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“I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to the hard work that has made them possible. But in the face of threats to humanitys future on the one hand and the extraordinary potential of mankind on the other, at some point we must ask: are we capable of more?”
“A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.”
“I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you, I am nothing but a dream. You like to play with life, you're not afraid of anything, not even of me. But I want you to know that I am not an object or a doll: I don't change faces on command, I like to sit down every day in the same place, on my own chair, and I know that you, you like to leave, to go to a new place every day.”
“I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....”
“biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.”
“And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.”

Source : Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume
“It’s not about what we do, or what we feel, it’s about what He did and what He felt. It’s about what Christ has done for us.”
“See, decide, attack, reverse.”

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