The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
ALAN ALDATestosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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