"A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.”
“To love someone is to always see them as the miracle that they are; as the miracle that they exist, the miracle that makes your own simultaneous existence seem fortunately improbable and therefore defiantly miraculous; is to show them, in your eyes and through the way in which you look at them, the limitless beauty of their true miraculous selves; is to say to them in every glance: "I believe in miracles because i believe in you."”
“When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.”

Source : "Actor Roselyn Sánchez: On Working in a Business Based on Rejection and Celebrating What Makes her Different". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 26, 2015.
“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”
“If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”
“He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “Wonderstruck”, p.221, Scholastic
“I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.”
“adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.”

Source : Ethel Vance, Grace Zaring Stone (1942). “Reprisal”

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