"envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world ..."

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Source : Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

Bonnie Friedman

#Envy Quotes #Mind Quotes #Scorpions Quotes

“There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.”

Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.15, Random House
“I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'”
“Do good. Inspire. Set an example to yourself and others. Have faith. Make your actions loud. Have fun. Be nice. Love strong.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 23, 2013
“I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.”
“Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.”
“Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.”
“What's amazing to me now is that I actually recall fixating on the fact that my thighs a-l-m-o-s-t touched at the top....If I could go back in time and slap my eighteen-year-old self, I would. I would tell her to snap out of it, because that's the best you thighs will ever be. You should take pictures of your thighs right now so you can remember how amazing they were!”
“I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.”

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