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“This odd hell that childhood is”

“This odd hell that childhood is, where you can be going through something in very close proximity to your parents, and they still can’t help you. You still can’t really tell anyone about it. It’s obsessed me, not just him, but generally that problem of childhood.”

– Graham Linehan, This American Life Episode 314.

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“Resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world”

“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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