"We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another."

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Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.107, Penguin

A.S.A. Harrison

#Psych Quotes #Desire Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.”
“It's really cool because it's all exactly my vision. I'm not watering anything down.”
“What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.”
“If it isn't going to matter to you in 5 years, quit stressing about it. (Also, quit b*tching about it. It might matter when you're all alone in 5 yrs because you're annoying now.)”
“At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.”
“The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.”
“So it shall be written. So it shall be done.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rameses". "The Ten Commandments", www.imdb.com. October 5, 1956.
“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.”

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