"In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to."

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Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

Betsy Lerner

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #People Quotes

“We all get frustrated and we all get angry, especially being young. We're happy so quickly, we're mad so quickly, and everything is just flowing so fast.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.”

Source : Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
“Atheists say no one can prove the existence of God but I say no one can disprove that God exists I see God in everything I feel his presence everywhere to me I know that he exists.”
“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press
“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”
“The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.”
“Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.”
“I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.”

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