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You must have me confused with myself
Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.
Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-
It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.
I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'
Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.
You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.