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My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.


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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.



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What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.



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What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.



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Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.



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Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.



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According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.



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It's a big world, and I really like it.



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The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?



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Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.





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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!



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They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)




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