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		I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible to anyone who may never have heard of me. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end - I don't think there's going to be any confusion there.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Todd Solondz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Golding 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erich Maria Remarque 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eric Clapton 
			 
			
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		Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Arthur Schopenhauer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Homer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Scott Westerfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Seth Godin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Kids dealing with these really adult-problems. I'm making big, generalized statements but our culture doesn't acknowledge these things. Sex does lead to pregnancy! Kids don't always have an outlet or someone they can talk to about it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sarah Steele 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is always a fear that i’ll be in Europe somewhere, and this little blue-eyed kid would come over to me with his mom and go, “dada, dada”. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Caleb Followill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible to anyone who may never have heard of me. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end - I don't think there's going to be any confusion there. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Todd Solondz