"Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want."

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Source : Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.35, Paulist Press

Jean Vanier

#Identity Quotes #Want Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month”
“Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.”

Source : "It Is Later Than You Think" l. 56 (1921)
“I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.”
“Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 6, 2003.
“Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.”

Source : "An Interview with Alan Bishop". July 1, 2008.
“For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
“...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.”
“I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.”

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