"But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable."

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Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Amy & Isabelle”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

Elizabeth Strout

#Kindness Quotes #Dark Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Fox would hire me in a minute. And believe it or not, CNN would, too.”
“The powerful don't make revolutions”
“I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!”
“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.”
“It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.”
“Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.”
“When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.”

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