"Donâ€™t be afraid,â€ she said, coldly, â€œ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Donâ€™t be afraid, John."

-- Elizabeth Gaskell

#Taken Quotes #Pride Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.”

Source : "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.
“In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.”
“Only great and general battles can produce great results”
“For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.”
“I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him”
“Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.”
“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.”
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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