"As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so."

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Arabella Weir

#Growing Up Quotes #Welcome Quotes #Made Quotes

“To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.”
“The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.”
“Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.”
“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”

Source : "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time". Book by John M. Shanahan, September 1909.
“Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.”
“A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.”
“If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.”
“The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.”

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