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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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Butterfly Friend Happy Journey Long Love Order Plan Travel
Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Hope Man Picture Soaring Vulture
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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Ancestor Emotion Family People Relationship
Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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Almighty Good Merry Go Round Sacrifice Wanted
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Hobby Myself Past Require Shadow Skill Value Writing
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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Being Yourself Ego Expectation Life Love Respect Self Self Esteem
Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Action Definition Hibernation Implement Preparation
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Ahead Beginning End Love Lying Motivation Support
I blundered into writing.
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Blunder heavy Idea One Liner Planning Practise Thought Writing
That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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Arrows Beautiful Exploit Explore Life Meaning Moving Things To Do
And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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Fail Fear Issue Loose My Own Problem Try Way
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Detached Explore Journey Memories Order Travel
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Difficult Fiction Good Made Real Reality
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Choice Day Desperate Live Music
My hole is warm and full of light.
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Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women

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