"I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Happiness Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.”
“Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.”
“Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.”
“Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.”
“Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.15, Macmillan
“There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.”
“the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”

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