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Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
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It simply makes sense that I should miss my parents more than they miss me, especially when you consider that they only loved me for thirteen years while I loved them my entire life.
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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
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There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
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If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
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The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander
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My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.
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Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
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Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.
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There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
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That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
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The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.
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Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.
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Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...
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That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
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February 21, 1962
(age 62)
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