"It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details."

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Source : Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.323, Penguin

Melissa Bank

#Simple Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Scare Quotes

“To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.”
“There's always been a man telling me what to do.”
“Dont try to excuse yourself by saying you're doing it for someone else's sake. - Break”
“I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?”
“France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.”
“O'Connor lives by the following words: You don't look back. When people ask O'Connor now, "Aren't you sorry you resigned because everything you voted for is being reversed by the current court?" She says, "You can't look back."”
“We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.”
“If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.”

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