"We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?"

-- Robert D. Hales

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“If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.”
“He raped me ... he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me,”
“Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.”
“In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.”
“But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.”
“There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.”
“It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage
“I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.”

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