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Gene Wolfe quote: "Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what..."

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

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I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man. Ralph Ellison
Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then. Ninette de Valois
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people. Neil Gaiman
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. --..."
Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. -- Bella Cullen Stephenie Meyer
Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable. Paulo Coelho
Elbert Hubbard quote: "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day;..."
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. Milan Kundera
Ralph Ellison quote: "All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little..."
All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit. Ralph Ellison
Gene Wolfe quote: "When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment."
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. Gene Wolfe
Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything. Gil Kane
He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome. Nora Roberts
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you..."
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. Paul Gauguin
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. J. M. Barrie
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation. Aldous Huxley