"The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing."

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Source : Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.107, Penguin

Dorothy Allison

#Magic Quotes #Belief Quotes #Muscles Quotes

“To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.”
“But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.”
“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
“I hate you.â€ â€œI know,â€ he whispered. â€œKiss me.â€ He didnâ€™t hesitate.”
“I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.”
“Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.”
“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”

Source : F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.226, e-artnow
“You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.”

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