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Arundhati Roy quote: "Change is one thing. Acceptance is another."
Change is one thing. Acceptance is another. Arundhati Roy
Patrick White quote: "If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others."
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others. Patrick White
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of..."
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world. W. Somerset Maugham
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you. Elie Wiesel
Warren Bennis quote: "Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should..."
Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept. Warren Bennis
John Irving quote: "and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr...."
and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. John Irving
These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs. Margaret Cho
We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly. Ray Bradbury
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructiv? compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic. Guy Debord
William Golding quote: "If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not..."
If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words. William Golding
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another,..."
Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement. Vladimir Nabokov
He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think. Victor Hugo
Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars! Herman Melville
I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath. Wilkie Collins

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