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Tag Archives: fear
Just a Thought
Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave.—George R. R. Martin/Game of Thrones
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Tagged bravery, fear, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, trudging forward
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drama e’ry day
I’ve worked in customer service a long long time. I’m tired. Tired of being nice, of smiling and nodding, of caring about everyone’s problem before caring about my own. Years ago I worked with a really good friend at a … Continue reading
Snotty Tissues
It has been a week since I sat on my couch watching election results come back on my television. While I sat there with my nausea rising and my brain slowly catching fire, all I could think was that my … Continue reading
Thinking in the yard.
I like to think that at some point along the way I was actually an excited and exuberant person. I like to think that once upon a time I had original and amazing ideas. Sometimes I feel like that person … Continue reading
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Tagged confidence, exuberance, fear, ideas, praise, thinking in the evening sun, timing, unpacking garden stuff, yard
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Just a Thought
The cracking ice inside her was being replaced with a spongy fear, as if a monster were trying to swim up out of her guts and swallow her whole. She bit her lower lip and breathed hard, trying to drive … Continue reading
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Tagged cry, Dead Set, fear, growing up, hide, monster, Richard Kadrey
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Just a Thought
The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. “Fear,” he used to say, “fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.” That blew me away. “Turn on … Continue reading
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Tagged basic emotion, economics, fear, history, Max Brooks, primal, World War Z
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Brilliance. Sheer fucking brilliance. Conventional executions might have reinforced discipline, might have restored order from the top down, but by making us all accomplices, they held us together not just by fear, but by guilt as well. We could have … Continue reading
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Tagged fear, guilt, Max Brooks, order, World War Z
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Personally, I think that’s a big ’ole sack of it. Sure, we were unprepared, our tools, our training, everything I just talked about, all one class-A, gold-standard clusterfuck, but the weapon that really failed wasn’t something that rolled off an … Continue reading
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Tagged fear, Max Brooks, Shock and Awe, war tactics, World War Z
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