"When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them."

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Source : Dorothy Koomson (2006). “My Best Friend's Girl”, Bantam Discovery

Dorothy Koomson

#People Quotes #Relax Quotes #Honest Quotes

“No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”
“It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.”
“Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.”
“One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.”
“I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'”
“Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?”

Source : Jill Ker Conway (2011). “When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography”, p.3, Vintage
“I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.”
“What is charm, it is not a moral quality.. it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even.. it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.”

Source : "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. February Chapter, 1986.

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