Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013)

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I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

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You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

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The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less.

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I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied.

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I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

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The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

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In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

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Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

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You can't imagine the white-hot fury someone who can't sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

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I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

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When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

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The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

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When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

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Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

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In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

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Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

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