"Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be."

-- Merle Shain

#People Quotes #Helping Quotes #Persons Quotes

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others...”
“Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.”
“We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.”
“Tis the ignorant who boast.”
“There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.”

Source : "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.
“So to the wretched writer I should like to say that thereâ€™s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them”
“I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.”

Source : "Kara DioGuardi's 'A Helluva High Note': Quit Not Fired From 'American Idol' and More Secrets" by Kate Aurthur, www.thedailybeast.com. April 25, 2011.
“Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.12, Grove Press

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