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I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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My life is an apology for the life of my father. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

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You can't beat yourself up anymore,' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing on the how-bad-should-I-feel? scale. ↗

— Melissa C. Walker

#life-lessons #parental-advice #life

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak... ↗

— Jojo Moyes

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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#jack #ma #thoughts-on-life #life

It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied. ↗