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If I get too focused on creating for others, then doubt will overcome my creativity, and I will find myself unable to make anything.

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You will become enthralled with their presence all too easily. They are easy to fall for; it feels intoxicating to be around them because of their welcoming touch and creative, different outlook on things.

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I remember being the most distracted. I wasn’t doing quite as well in school as I had been before, and my concentration was dropping significantly. For the first time in my life, I had to get help outside of school to keep my grades up.

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Doing theatre won’t turn you gay, but you may have several women pining for you if you can sing and dance and aren’t a terrible human

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The books you treat like bibles. The doodles and quotes in your journal, the Tumblr photos you reblog. The glossy magazines you flipped through when you were a pre-teen crafting ideas about womanhood that you’d have to dismantle for yourself.

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“A scientist can revisit scientific history at his choice. A humanist has no choice: he must revisit the history of the humanities all the time, because it is always alive and can’t be superseded.”