"I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?"

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Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.240, Serpent's Tail

Karen Joy Fowler

#Mistake Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.”
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”
“Success is a balance thing, it's about work and play together, so we need to work on how we embrace that. The conversation we need to keep having is how women and businesses learn to embrace women having children.”
“The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.”

Source : "To Mikhail Baryshnikov, time is a great teacher". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.latimes.com. August 30, 2009.
“Maybe it's easier to think about dishonesty and what kind of trouble you can get into as a writer when love and honesty collide and you sidestep that collision, either because you want to protect somebody or you want to blame somebody - which are the usual impulses in love: protection and blame, frequently at the same time - so you don't exactly tell the truth.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.”

Source : "Media Monkey's diary", www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2012.
“I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face”
“...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.”

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