But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Interpretation
Avoiding your past can lead to it haunting you in unexpected ways.
This quote reflects the idea that if you choose to ignore or avoid confronting your past experiences or traumas, those unresolved issues will inevitably resurface and demand your attention. It suggests that engaging with our past is essential for personal growth and peace.
In practice
During a counseling session, this quote could be used to illustrate the importance of addressing unresolved issues.
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you
I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.
But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.
It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
People who understand everything get no stories.
They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy. Now, if I’m wrong, put me in jail; but if you can’t prove that democracy is not hypocrisy, then don’t put your hands on me.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
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