“I was never used to being happy, so that wasn’t something I ever took for granted. You see, I was brought up differently from the average child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy. I was a mistake. My mother didn’t want to have me”
—Marilyn Monroe
June 2013
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“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces”
—Richard Kadrey
“I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that’s why I’m grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that’s inside me”
—Anne Frank
“It starts out young- you try not to be different just to survive- you try to be like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and the one day you wake up and you’ve become all these other people- the other’s- the something you aren’t. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it’s too late to find out”
—Douglas Coupland
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”
—Anaïs Nin
