“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything”
– Nellie Bly
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Dark parts – August Wilson
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. ”
– August Wilson
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Truth – Gloria Steinem
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Gloria Steinem
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I turned away – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The silent garden – Leonora Carrington
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
– Leonora Carrington
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Knowledge – Unknown
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”
– Unknown
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Fundamental Attribution Error
“In short, people tend to think of other people’s outcomes as caused by their innate personalities, while simultaneously considering their own outcomes to be largely from external events and situations.”
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In a dream – Jack Kerouac
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
– Jack Kerouac
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Travel – Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
― Mark Twain
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Kindness – Mark Twain
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain
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Money – Clare Boothe Luce
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.”
– Clare Boothe Luce
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You learn – Jorge Luis Borges
“After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises …
After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Love – Jude Deveraux
“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
– Jude Deveraux
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Change – Anne Rice
“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
– Anne Rice
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Literature – Rick Moody
“I think literature is best when it’s voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
– Rick Moody