"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Soul Quotes #Dear Quotes

“When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.”
“In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain - if you win, someone has to lose.”
“I think that movies are really fake; they should be fake. I don't think my way is any better than anybody else's way, but I know they're not real. I like to lean into the make-believe aspect of movies. That's why they're better than real life.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!”
“I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.”
“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent you learn, in a word, femininity.”

Source : "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
“We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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