-Why did you fall in love with me?
-I didn't think I could. I thought I was too damaged. But it's not. I woke up one morning, and I looked at you over breakfast, and I thought to myself, God, this is what they mean. This is what they're talking about.
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You are the greatest.
You are the greatness.
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I'm spiritually bankrupt. I'm empty.
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You're so great. You're so kind to me. You have such a sweet, kind instinct. I count on you to be really critical, to be really tough. You're too easy on me.
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Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
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You have no values. Your whole life... It's nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm and orgasm.
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They are clubs. They're exclusionary. They foster the concept of the other, so you know clearly who you should hate.
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You put your art into your work. I put it into my life.
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Accept your limitations, and get on with your life.
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Notes for a novel.
Opening possibility:
... lived a fragmented, disjointed existence. He had long come to this conclusion: All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
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