"We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up."

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Source : Annie Proulx (1996). “The Shipping news”

Annie Proulx

#Growing Up Quotes #Differences Quotes #Strange Quotes

“With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists.”
“Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch!”
“Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.”
“I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.”
“Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.”
“As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see the lovely hilarity of life. Things that were once so crushing take on a different essence. I move through it at a faster rate. It's like traveling: it opens my eyes. My process is to allow myself to have it and to not judge myself or the situation too much, and then to create something with it.”
“The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.”
“No act of love is ever wasted.”

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