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• I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

  Peter Cameron

  Awful, Pressure, Charming

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?

  Peter Cameron

  Life, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• I only feel like myself when I am alone.

  Peter Cameron

  Feels

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

  Peter Cameron

  Religious, Believe, People

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.128, Macmillan

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• The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. He spoke as if they were poetry, and they became poetry. Later, when he fell asleep, I leaned over him and watched, trying to picture a mathematician's dreams. I concluded that Stephen must dream in abstract, cool designs like Mondrian paintings.

  Peter Cameron

  Dream, Distance, Night

  Peter Cameron (2012). “One Way or Another: Stories”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.

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  Would Be, Way, Things To Do

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Want

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

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  Thinking, World, Bears

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

  Peter Cameron

  Mother, Thinking, People

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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