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So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
After four sunsets and sunrises, the spirit, too, was gone. It was simply a body. Diggers would come and sprinkle a layer of soil over the flesh, but even so it would be eaten by the clawing, hungry creatures that came at night. Then the bones would scatter, rot, and crumble to become part of the earth.
Gathering Blue (The Giver Trilogy): Lois Lowry
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
To quote the Almanac: “People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
Fear,” he used to say, “fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.” That blew me away. “Turn on the TV,” he’d say. “What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.
Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.
I grew up a little, and I gradually began to figure out that pretty much everyone had been lying to me about pretty much everything since the moment I emerged from my mother’s womb.
The basic reality,” Sandman told the New York Times, “is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different.
