"It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise."

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Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1995). “A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Marion Dane Bauer

#Giving Quotes #Praise Quotes #Curious Quotes

“Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.”
“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.”
“The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.”
“Happiness is a moving target.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.193, Macmillan
“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”
“The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.”
“Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs”
“But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.”

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