"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."

-- Amy Tan

#Love Quotes #Pain Quotes #Years Quotes

“Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.”
“Necessity inspires the fatal thought.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”
“In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.”
“Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?”
“A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.”
“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”
“I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.”
“Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.”

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