"One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it."

-- David Brin

#Reality Quotes #Rose Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.”
“I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.”
“I love to sing some Beyonce - ya know, like 'All the Single Ladies.' I'll sing that - maybe not with the body shakin' - but I'll have a little bit of the hand movement going on.”
“I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.”
“I can't stand most things that I see.”
“When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayerâ€”no matter how eloquent the oration.”
“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?”
“It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid”

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