Michael Caldwell
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Michael Caldwell
The Last time I saw you, you were in a catastrophy of reality.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, but my question is, was she in competition with her husband as far a being an author?
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The truly awful thing about success is that it’s held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. https://t.co/UAKhfmqDGR
The other drawback from expectation is that it creates a blind spot. You can only see what you expect to see. The more your system is filled with expectations, the more difficult it is to see something else.
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Our degree of satisfaction is critically dependent on our expectations. The greater our hopes, the greater the risks of rage, bitterness, disappointment and a sense of persecution. We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invested our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then did not reach
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This is how it works: You’ve always wanted to be a writer, but instead you decide you should become a health care worker. You go to school for four years. You get a degree in social work. You are at your first day of your new job, listening to an orientation, and you realize you really did want to be a writer. You quit your job, go to the library
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According to Goethe, Byron’s poetical power eclipsed all other mortals, and he was not held back by petty morality, being possessed of a virtue of which the bourgeoisie had no conception.