"Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?"

-- Mary Louisa Molesworth

#Self Quotes #Different Quotes

“I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.”
“Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.”
“If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ...”
“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”
“What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say â€œrighteous,â€ I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.”
“I'm drawing in my head pretty much.”
“Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.”
“The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.”

Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

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