Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire.
ALAN BALLOnce Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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It’s also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
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I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
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Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.
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