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He tried to be a good man, to do the right things, to make the world a little better than it had been before he had put his stamp upon it. You could be generous with the love you gave, with the care you took with others. You could follow all the command- ments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma. The truth was that he wasn't so sure he understood how the world worked anymore.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

There is something cathartic about what has happened to me during this stay in hospital. I__e heard others say that coming face to face with your own mortality can have this effect. You look with harsh, savage eyes at the life you are living and resolve to make the best of the time you have left, if you can be allowed the luxury of a few extra years to fulfill your plans. Around me, I see an urgency creep into the lives of friends once they have an AIDS diagnosis: they rush out and try to complete as many life projects as they can, before their health deteriorates.

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

Remember: In poetry, each word is like a loaded gun; very heavy, and full of intent

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

Friendship Quote of the Week:"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"_Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President and World Leader

As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. __o, we can__ do that._ __o, that__ not in the budget._ __o, I will not hold your hand for a dollar._ What kind of way is that to live?

I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when i also didn't have to worry about money.' __teve Jobs

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance.

The heaviest thing is an empty heart.

__he stars are like the trees. Each one reminds us that we should still the greed in our heart. Each tree, each star, teaches us the ways of peace.

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

And now a hundred subjective years had passed in those hundred objective hours and he could no longer clearly visualize the university at all or the life of sad frustration he had been leading there toward the end.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.