"At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotionsâ€”and your extraordinary and remarkable ideasâ€”can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares."

-- Doris Lessing

#Pain Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.”
“Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.”
“Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.”

Source : Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.25, Basic Books
“CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'”
“Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.”
“I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom”

Source : "Felix Baumgartner: 'I hope I can make fear cool'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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