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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

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I'm falling into disrepair

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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

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