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“...he details everything around the beauty and excitement, which is enough to evoke it again for each of us, in the mind's eye, the gut, the secret heart, or wherever one's most vivid, passionate, lyric, and lavender images are stored. - Tobi Tobias, "Balletgorey”

ImaginationDetailsMind S Eye

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“A situation comes up, and either you do this or that, or maybe a third alternative comes up. But you simply do not choose. You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.”

Choices

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“[On his childhood] You know, I would like to think that I was much more poetic and sensitive than anybody else, but I don't think it was true.”

ChildhoodSensitive Children

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“[On his childhood] I'm sure mine was happier than I imagine in retrospect. I look back and think, "Oh poetic me," but it simply was not true. I was out playing Kick-the-Can along with everyone else.”

ChildhoodRetrospectHappy Childhood

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“I always feel that other people's lives are filled with meaning. You look at them on the street and think how real their lives must be. Of course, you also know that isn't true.”

MeaningPerceptions Of RealityPerceptions Of Other Humans

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“I think there should be a little bit of uneasiness in everything, because I do think we're all really in a sense living on the edge. So much of life is inexplicable. . . . The things that happen to you are usually the things that you haven't thought of or that come absolutely out of nowhere. And all you can do is cope with them when they turn up.”

InexplicableUneasinessOn The EdgeCoping With LifeCoping With The Unexpected

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“I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.”

MoorsIan BradyMoors MurdersMyra HindleyThe Moors Murders

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“What obsesses me more than anything in the world . . . is why some things happen and why other things don't. It doesn't seem to me there is any logic, any way of . . . you know . . .”

Uncertainties Of LifeLife Possibilities

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“More and more, I think you should have no expectations and do everything for its own sake. That way you won't be hit in the head quite so frequently.”

ExpectationsLow ExpectationsLife Expectations

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“I think if you have to think about anything very long, you've obviously done yourself an injury, as it were.”

Thinking Too HardThinking Harder

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“We spend all our lives trying to avoid reality in one way or another. I've always had a rather strong sense of unreality. I feel other people exist in a way I don't.”

Reality

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