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Sylvia Plath quote: "Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That..."
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. Sylvia Plath
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans Lawrence Durrell
There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is. Queen Latifah
Jeanette Winterson quote: "When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut..."
When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in. Jeanette Winterson
Stephen Covey quote: "Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together."
Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together. Stephen Covey
As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. Tom Robbins
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. Oscar Wilde
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even the best-intentioned leadership can bestow independence as a gift. The liberation of the oppressed is a liberation of women and men, not things. Accordingly, while no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others. Liberation, a human phenomenon, cannot be achieved by semihumans. Any attempt to... Paulo Freire
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to..."
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Philip Guedalla quote: "Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth..."
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla
there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency. Albert Camus
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples. Dorothy L. Sayers
Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart. J. K. Rowling
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests. Leo Tolstoy
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. Terry Prachett

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