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“I'll come back to you," I say, "If it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you.”

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Pittacus Lore is a mysterious fictional character whose identity and life experience are not detailed in the available information. It is speculated that he may be a wise man or philosopher with profound influence. Details about his achievements and impact are limited. more

“Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.”

“Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.”

Should Long Self Behinds Lucky Summer Bird Dinosaurs Heirs Short Life So Lucky

Book:The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

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“Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.”

People Sports Perfection

Book:The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Source: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.”

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