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Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win.
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The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he s...
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LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the...
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Nel tennis il vero avversario, la frontiera che include, è il giocatore stesso. C'è sempre e solo ...
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Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...
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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
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This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?'...
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You want to know the story? I'd be happy to tell you. I think I have just enough caloric energy stor...
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Huh. Well you and I just disagree. Maybe the world just feels differently to us. This is all going b...
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Trying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool -- it's the same beast.
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Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a h...
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...you are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, ...
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The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picay...
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Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it
implicitly congratulates both it...
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This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your peopl...
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Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fibe...
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Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto de que s...
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If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and lov...
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Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men’s Room, does Sternberg, and strug...
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When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesce...
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I am fortunately an entirely handsome devil and appear even younger than twenty-nine. I look like a ...
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But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfact...
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Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, and that ...
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If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worri...
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I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu...
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JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of m...
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The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
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It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
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Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.
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Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment...
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Blue Springs Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Unit, Independence, Mo.
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The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for t...
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It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others’ self esteem simply as a function...
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She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.
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It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way...
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...this was depressing, much the way discovering that somebody is easy to manipulate is always a lit...
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The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece...
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I don't think he was used to patients who were already aware of what their real problem was. He was ...
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The almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left anymore of the delusion that he di...
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-when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade l...
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*One clue that there’s something not quite real about sequential time the way you experience it i...
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Atwater knew — as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never sa...
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The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I k...
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(..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i...
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Even as I wrote my note to Fern, for instance, expressing sentiments and regrets that were real, a p...
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If I understand you right,' he says, 'you're saying that you're basically a calculating manipulative...
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It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function o...
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What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of wha...
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The truth is you already know what it's like. You already know the difference between the size and s...
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Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.
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You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...
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When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal.
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I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit�...
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How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
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Here is how to turn down an extramural date so you won't be asked again. Say something like I'm terr...
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the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfi...
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This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which su...
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You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness �...
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fac...
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per...
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