"One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily."

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Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

Amanda Filipacchi

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“They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.”
“I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!”

Source : Avi (2008). “A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.”
“Through my life and my experience, I believe getting "positive mental attitude" is true. Your brain has certain pathways in it, and if you feed those pathways with certain types of thoughts, the blood goes to those neurons and nourishes them, and they grow and develop. That's how you build habits. Physically, I think that's how your brain works. If you have certain habits that are negative and causing you problems that you want to change them, you can actually change the blood flow and stuff in your brain by thinking a different way.”

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“Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.”
“I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness”
“I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.”

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