"Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed."

-- John J. Geddes

#Hurt Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.”
“I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.”
“I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface tremblingâ€”it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.”

Source : James Salter, Robert Phelps (2010). “Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps”, p.25, Counterpoint Press
“Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.”
“I don't want the attention. I want the respect.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.”

Source : robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”
“Sometimes the things youâ€™ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.”
“Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.”

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