"I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled."

-- Francine Prose

#Attitude Quotes #Fooled Quotes #Eastern Quotes

“Self trust is the essence of heroism.”
“Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.”
“Trump's rhetoric is undermining America's credibility, undermining America's leadership and strength in Europe, even without him being president. The rhetoric itself is very damaging. Obviously, if you were to try to implement any of that rhetoric as president, it would be catastrophic for America's interests.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come...”
“I've actually found that most of my jobs have been in sci-fi. I realized it because sci-fi has the biggest fan following. Every time I do a play in London all these sci-fi fans come out. They ask me to sign things from all these little projects that I did. I hadn't even made the connection. It doesn't always have a spaceship and guns; sci-fi has been projected on in someway. I did Never Let Me Go, which is sort of Star Trek-y. It's about the future and training humans. It's sci-fi too. It's such a broad umbrella.”
“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

Source : Orson Scott Card, Scott Orson (1997). “Children of the Mind”, Turtleback Books
“No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.”
“I'm not really into the fashion thing.”

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