When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation. - Jordan Peterson

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I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again. - Richard Ben Cramer

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.― Maya Angelou

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Abortion is clearly wrong. - Jordan Peterson

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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood. - Jordan Peterson

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If you think the story has a sad ending, it's because it's not over yet. ― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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