"People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Adversity Quotes #People Quotes #Defeated Quotes

“Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.”
“Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian”
“My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.”

Source : Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.44, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.”
“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.”
“I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of mÃ©tier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence.”
“As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
“I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.”

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