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“And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.”
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“Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.”
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“Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.”
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“Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.”
Source : Neel Burton (2017). “Growing from Depression, second edition”, p.61, Acheron Press
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“Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.”
Source : Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.15, Harvard University Press
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“I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.”
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“A melody is not merely something you can hum.”
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“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: baby-doll. Pulling on a sweater, and in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words?”