"Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become."

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Source : "Summers at Castle Auburn". Book by Sharon Shinn, 2001.

Sharon Shinn

#Sometimes Quotes #Refuse Quotes #Models Quotes

“None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.”
“A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.”
“I enjoy seeing anybody do good. I have no hard feelings.”
“'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.”
“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.”
“When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.”
“Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.”
“Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (2003). “Ghetto Diary”, p.22, Yale University Press

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