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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.
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Life meanders like a street through the city. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones.
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It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free.
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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind.
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I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.
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The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.
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Driving to work and parking in the garage doesn’t upset any people, but riding your bike and asking for a place to lock it up just might.
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Slow, don't kill the kids.
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I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dog and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
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We are a society dying of too much choice.
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Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.
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How brave is the lone cyclist heroically defying the wind.
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This reminds me, by the way, of a dream I had a couple of weeks ago. I found myself in a strange deserted city.
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What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.
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The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot.
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Be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
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Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
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The kind of blue that makes you ache for them to look at you again. Not the blue green or blue gray, the blue that's just blue.
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Your rage, your sorrow, your joy, your pain. Your voice when you’ve lost your own. To be a part of that, to be the soundtrack of someone’s life, is a beautiful thing.
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I am thinking that a poem could go on forever.
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple tree a wonderful future beckoned and winked.
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A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one.
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I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
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Fuck, it totally does.
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Your life, right now, today, is exploding with energy and power and detail and dimension, better than the best movie you have ever seen.
