Remember: everyone is a public performer. People never know exactly what you think or feel; they judge you on your appearance.
Is that too much to ask?...
He's eyes narrow, a dark glint flashing in them. "Oh, you really are asking for it, pet. You just don't know when to stop, do you?" Without warning, his hand grips her jaw tightly. "You're mine to discipline, pet. And I intend to show you exactly what happens when you disrespect your superiors." He brings his lips close to hers, their breath mingling. "You will learn to kneel before me, my pet. And you'll soon realize that I am the master of control."
"Perhaps the clearest and most certain thing that can be said about postmodernism is that it is a very unclear and very much contested concept. Celebrated by some as a new wave of emancipation from the stifling constraints of modern ideologies that have grown stagnantly conservative and elitist, postmodernism is conversely con- demned for confining us in its own prison-house of conservatism for encouraging an attitude of slackening by its scepticism regarding the notions of progress and originality, by its advocacy of appropriation and recycling, and by its ideology of the end of ideology. But the controversy over postmodernism goes well beyond the question of its value. Its very meaning, scope, and character are so vague, ambiguous, and deeply contested that it has been challenged as a pernicious, illegitimate non concept. Advocates reply that the concept's very vagueness usefully challenges the view that concepts must be clear to be meaningful, fruitful, and important.
How exactly we determine the legitimacy of a concept is a fascinating question in itself. Is conceptual legitimacy a matter of logical coherence, reference to the real, entrenched usage, practical utility? In any case, the concept of postmodernism seems, for the moment, to be adequately vindicated by the profusion of scholarly work that is dedicated to its clarification and elaboration in the various arts and other forms of cultural production since the latter part of the twentieth century."
SOME THINGS ARE HARD TO REMEMBER. I’m thinking now of when Stradlater got back from his date with Jane. I mean I can’t remember exactly what I was doing when I heard his goddam stupid footsteps coming down the corridor. I probably was still looking out the window, but I swear I can’t remember. I was so damn worried, that’s why. When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go. If you knew Stradlater, you’d have been worried, too.
“ I can meet that many people on Instagram in an hour.’
‘Exactly. Not healthy! Our brains can’t handle it. Which is why we crave face-to-face communication more than ever. ”
“They were monsters! They were not human!”
“Have you ever considered,” he said slowly, “that that was exactly what they thought of us?”
Consistency\Intensity
The choice to lead with an infinite mindset is less like preparing for a football game and more like the decision to get into shape. There is no one thing we can do in order to get into shape. We can't simply go to the gym for nine hours and expect to be in shape. However, if we go to the gym ev- ery single day for twenty minutes, we will absolutely get into shape. Consistency becomes more important than intensity:
The problem is, no one knows exactly when we will see results.
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“They were monsters!” Rin shrieked. “They were not human!”
“Have you ever considered,” he said slowly, “that that was exactly what they thought of us?”
The tinted evening air softly rustled the pine branches in warning, and I suddenly remembered exactly where I was headed. I shivered with the thoughts of how horrible that forest had made me feel.
Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain.
Compare yourself to your self yesterday
So, about that one sentence of advice: Don't feel behind. Two Roman historians recorded that when Julius Caesar was a young man he saw a statue of Alexander the Great in Spain and broke down in tears. "Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable," he supposedly said.
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When an object is exactly like another, it is not exactly like it, it is a bit more exact.
my little flower? MY LITTLE FLOWER!!
As it appears, my little flower didn't understand what exactly she's gotten herself into before tonight.
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