"Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?"

-- Lillian Hellman

#Success Quotes #Block Quotes #Good Times Quotes

“Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.”
“Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.”
“Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -”
“When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?”
“The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.”
“Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.”
“I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones for getting at issues and "deeper issues," and all that. Right now, honestly, I think all religion is proving itself to be a NET negative on the human race. I recognize its valuable place in individual lives and many larger communities - I know the good that is done in its various names all over the world, but I don't believe in it anymore, and I see the negative aspects dragging us down at a much faster rate than the positive ones are bouying us up.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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