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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

Adam Duritz

Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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Again Anxiety Closeness Life People Proximity Want
My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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Anyone Better Important Just More Necessarily Taking Talking
Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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Act Anyway Bravery Face Hurt Scare Thing
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way
I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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Alone Like Lonely People Person Spiritual Thinking World
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Daffodil Emotion Myself Pain Patience Wrap
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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Early Hear Hollis Brown Need People Person Unbelievable Up
It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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Creativity Experiment Fighting Idea Impossible Journey Life Six
I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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Being Breath Breathing Busy Pain People Trying Year
If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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Break Change Find Goes Murder One Rhyme Some Sorrow Way
Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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Adept Doing Eventually Make Over Proven Quite Something Year
There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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Important Nothing Part Up Wake World
I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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Better Happy Make Often People Right Thinking

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

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