"There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also."

-- Lore Segal

#Assuming Quotes #Manners Quotes #Adam And Eve Quotes

“Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.”
“I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.”
“New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.”
“Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.”
“Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes.”
“One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.”
“When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises”
“Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. â€¦ Would you make more time for those people?”

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