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1. "First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography." ~ Jesse Ball
2. "Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life." ~ Jesse Ball
3. "In a long life, said many an old man, this is but one more thing. Yet there were others who were young and knew nothing about the helplessness of life's condition. Did they glow with light? They did, but of course, it could not be seen. And all the while, the grinding of bones like machinery, and the light step of tightrope walkers out beyond the windows." ~ Jesse Ball
4. "I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may connect them, though pity, compassion, hope may marry one thing to another, still all that is in process cannot be judged, and that which has passed has gone beyond judgment, which leaves us again, with lives and belongings, places, shuttling here and there, hapless, benighted, discordant." ~ Jesse Ball
5. "We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair.-Piet Soron, 1847" ~ Jesse Ball
6. "The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past." ~ Jesse Ball
7. "--Let us make a pact, she said. To madness at every juncture!" ~ Jesse Ball
8. "One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition and ambition's remedy as though in flight across some imagined map, the subject of a conversation in a comfortable English room." ~ Jesse Ball
9. "-Lara is a weasel. I've always hated her. The only happy week I had as a child was when she fell from the roof and went into a coma. She came out of it, though. Everyone was so happy.-Is that true? asked James.-No, said Grieve. But they would have been happy. Everyone thinks she's so clever. And I would be happy if she went away and never came back." ~ Jesse Ball
10. "One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life." ~ Jesse Ball
11. "The judges are doing what I am telling them to do, simply because I understand better than they do this one thing: the absurd lengths to which human beings go to prove themselves reasonable." ~ Jesse Ball
12. "We tire differently if we love or love not." ~ Jesse Ball
13. "The effect of untrue statements on casual conversations is one of my great loves, my great ongoing investigations." ~ Jesse Ball
14. "If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all." ~ Jesse Ball
15. "The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone?" ~ Jesse Ball
16. "I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor." ~ Jesse Ball
17. "En sevdigi oyuncagiydi. Neydi? Kirmiziya boyanmis, ufak, tahta bir kus. Kirmiziydi, gerçekten öyleydi; tam da gün isiginda, gölgede, mumlarla, söminenin basinda ona bakan bir oglan çocugunu hayallere daldiracak, parlak, tatli bir kirmizi. Ama muhabbetkusu ya da öyle degersiz bir tür oldugunu sanmayin. Hayir, onun kusu bir baykustu." ~ Jesse Ball
18. "Mr. Gibbons had the talent that many puppeteers have of speaking to children as though he believed they were intelligent and could understand a thing or two." ~ Jesse Ball
19. "In the next room, perhaps twenty people were sitting around, drinking what looked like wine out of wine-glasses. They were the sort of people William and Louisa used to be in the habit of knowing, a crowd of elegant furniture, like the legs of a herd of gazelle taken together, and equally useless, when all things are considered." ~ Jesse Ball
20. "I will tell you it simply: he felt he was falling. He felt he fell through a succession of wells, of holes, of chasms, and that I was there at windows, and we would be together for a moment as he fell by. Then I would rush to the next window , down and down, and he would fall past, and I would see him again." ~ Jesse Ball
21. "The old man took out an extraordinarily beautiful and elegant handkerchief and gave it to her to dry her tears. It was the sort of handkerchief that one might be content to be judged by if it was all that remained of one after one's death." ~ Jesse Ball
22. "The old man sang for a while, and Mora felt in her head the beginning of a long siege. A wilderness had crept up around a walled town, and the darkness of old woods and far-off places began to grow then, even within sight of where men walked together. By this she meant in her heart that all the useless things one remembers well just before waking and forgets just after were in fact very important and perhaps all that stood now between herself and oblivion." ~ Jesse Ball
23. "That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!" ~ Jesse Ball
24. "Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?" ~ Jesse Ball
25. "…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it." ~ Jesse Ball

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Dorothy viewed my mother's propensity toward madness not as something to be afraid of, but rather as something to look forward to, like a movie or a newly released color of nail polish.'Your mother is just expressing herself,' Dorothy would tell me when my mother stopped sleeping, started smoking the filters of her cigarettes and began writing backward with a glitter pen. No, she's not,' I would say. 'She's going insane again.' Don't be so mundane,' she would yawn, passing my mother a shoebox filled with cat vertebrae. 'She is a brilliant artist. If you want Hamburger Helper, go find some other mother."
Author: Augusten Burroughs

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