"She just happened to feel like it. Wasnâ€™t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?"

-- Richard Yates

#Selfish Quotes #Complicated Quotes #Reason Quotes

“It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.”
“The world is for those who make their dreams come true.”
“The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.”
“Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the worldâ€™s rejection. And every elderly personâ€¦even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the â€˜culture of wasteâ€™ suggests!”
“I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.”
“Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.”
“Repetition is the death of art.”
“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

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