But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.
Rick YanceyTag: despair hope darkness light
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.
Rick YanceyTag: crazy therapists
That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.'
'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.
Tag: philosophical
Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.
Rick YanceyHe lost a finger. A finger! Why, I once had a Sherpa who guided me across the Himalayas with his small intestines hanging out of his gut -- in winter!
Rick YanceyShe hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all
Rick YanceyYes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.
Rick YanceyTag: monsters monstrumologist rick-yancey
Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us do, but embraced them as his own, clutching them to his heart in a choke-hold grip. He did not try to escape them by denying them or drugging them or bargaining with them. He met them where they lived, in the secret place most of us keep hidden. Warthrop was Warthrop down to the marrow of his bones, for his demons defined him; they breathed the breath of life into him; and without them, he would go down, as most of us do, into the purgatorial fog of a life unrealized.
Rick YanceyTag: inspirational
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
Rick YanceyTag: selfishness egotism
I'd walk right up to him and blow his brains out.
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