"Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie. But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war."

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Source : Judy Blundell (2010). “What I Saw And How I Lied”, p.249, Scholastic Inc.

Judy Blundell

#Mom Quotes #War Quotes #Apples Quotes

“To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.”
“Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears â€“ fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failureâ€.”
“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.”
“Most obviously it [Doctor Strange] will introduce a new character who will be in play in the universe, but once you have gotten an audience to buy into a new concept then it's fun to keep, to play-off, or spin-off that concept down the line.”
“Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.”
“Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.”

Source : Lesley Hazleton (1985). “The Right to Feel Bad”, Ballantine Books
“Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.”
“Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.”

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