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It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert. Sue Monk Kidd
Susan Boyle quote: "The one's who were mean to me are now nice to me."
The one's who were mean to me are now nice to me. Susan Boyle
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.[The human element] W. Somerset Maugham
Elie Wiesel quote: "Infants were tossed up in the air and used as the targets for..."
Infants were tossed up in the air and used as the targets for machine guns Elie Wiesel
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity) George MacDonald
...while the IMF certainly failed the people of Asia, it did not fail Wall Street - far from it. The hot money may have been spooked by the IMF's drastic measures, but the large investment houses and multinational firms were emboldened...These fun-seeking firms understood that as a result of the IMF's "adjustments," pretty much everything in Asia was now up for sale - and the more the market panicked, the more desperate Asian companies would be to sell, pushing their prices through the floor. Naomi Klein
Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech. Meg Cabot
Jane Austen quote: "Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night..."
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. Jane Austen
He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it. Nathanael West
Now they were all moving to no effect-just moving, just switching things off and switching things on, just picking things up and putting things down and picking things up and stroking the cat and counting the mugs and fighting for air. It seemed that everything they did had already been done and done, and that everything they thought had already been thought and thought, and that this would never end. Excuse me said panic to each of them in turn. They had no mouth and they had to scream. Martin Amis
Thomas Pynchon quote: "She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit,..."
She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided... Thomas Pynchon
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine--to dream about things that have not happened--is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten. Milan Kundera
Samuel Beckett quote: "That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of..."
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. Samuel Beckett
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it. Ernest Hemingway
My eyes were bewildered at their freedom. Without the motives that had marked the rest of the day - to seek out the airport, the exit out of Marseilles and so on - they careered from object to object, so that if their path had been traced by the mark of a giant pencil, the sky would soon have been darkened by random and impatient patterns Alain de Botton

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