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Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library


Evan Meekins


#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #heroes #role-models

She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!


Steven Levenkron


#eating-disorder #models #weight #eating-disorders

From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.


Steven Levenkron


#eating-disorders #happy #models #skinny #society

The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark, evil, and shameful. While it may not have been their intention, this was the message my clouded mind received. To escape the confines of the hospital, I once again disassociated myself from my emotions and numbed myself to the pain ravaging my body and mind. I acted as if nothing was wrong and went back to performing the necessary motions to get me from one day to the next. I existed but I did not live.


Alyssa Reyans


#bipolar-disorder #delusions #depression #hallucinations #insanity

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.


Flannery O'Connor


#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office—the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement—is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.


Christopher Hitchens


#assistance #bupropion #depression #future #happiness

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#extension #i #job #model #other

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.


Douglas Adams


#bad #been #beginning #created #in the beginning

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.


Joseph Addison


#delivered #down #generation #genius #great

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?


Joseph Addison


#cruel #delights #father #make #man






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