• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
• We're afraid to be human because if we're human we might get hurt.
• Are anybody's parents typical?
• It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.
• Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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