"You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted"

-- Dee Brown

#Giving Up Quotes #Book Quotes #Don't Give Up Quotes

“when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'”
“My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.”
“When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light”

Source : "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2005.
“Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well.”
“My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yoursâ€¦ it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.”
“You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.”
“Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.”
“I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.”

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