"A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”
“Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.”
“That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.”
“Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.”
“I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.”
“It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.”
“There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.”
“You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.”

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