"Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real."

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Source : Catherine DeVrye (2010). “Hope Happens!: Words of Encouragement for Times of Change”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

Catherine DeVrye

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“Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.”

Source : "I've never been an ingenue" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2008.
“Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.”
“In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Karl Pearson (2014). “The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences”, p.21, Cambridge University Press
“Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could be for sale. But we had very few buyers. I think it was Michael Heizer who said that the point was to have a bigger canvas, and I've used that expression quite a bit. But I was thinking today that a canvas has boundaries; it has limit to it. And for earthwork, it was the very openness and feeling that there were no boundaries that made it so exciting.”
“HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]”
“The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.”
“Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.186, Macmillan

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