"The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope."

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Ron Rash

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“You have something in this world, so stand for it.”
“The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential”
“Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them.”
“To be young was very heaven!”
“So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt." "Distracting, isn't it?”
“Inside the first 20 to 25 games of the season, we were losing these games, getting beat by two and three points. Over the last 10 games, it seems like we're starting to win these games and putting some good things together.”
“The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation.”
“With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy blossoms grew So lightly trembling.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 353), 1922.

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