It’s not about trying to create a coherent personality. It’s really not. Because we’re piles of steaming contradictions – and that’s fine. You don’t have to, like, make them cohere – or coherent to someone else.

– Laurie Anderson

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“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”

– Mark Twain

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

“i imagine yes is the only living thing.”

– e.e. cummings

“Acting is memorization. Improvisation is living.”

– David Shepherd

“The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.”

– Marcus Aurelius

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

– Nikola Tesla

“So when you are listening to someone, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Where in your life did you become uncomfortable with the sweet territory of silence?”

– Native American saying

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which have never happened.”

– Michel de Montaigne