One of the things that I have learned, one of the attainments of the long travails and tribulations, has been, I think, coming to a simpler sense of myself that I think correlates to a simpler sense of others. Something closer to what I now call the simple sense of being human, a sort of Wallace Stevens-esque formulation. I know that I can reach this in the audience, because when they start hearing a story, they wake up in this very clear, simple way. Almost like children. It’s the same thing: a child asks, “What’s going to happen next?” When they sense that a story is being told to them, they wake up. When they sense that it’s not being told anymore, they lose interest. I take this very seriously, because the sacred trust that allows openness is the precondition of the kind of exchange I want to have, the kind of relationship that I want to have. I don’t want to test that simple sense of being human. I don’t want to transform it. Ayad Akhtar
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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Unknown
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
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Jess C. Scott
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
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Tony Deliso
A fit, healthy body–that is the best fashion statement
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Jess C. Scott
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