"He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)"

-- Dorothy Allison

#Mama Quotes #Scared Quotes #Said Quotes

“I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.”
“I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!”
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”
“There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.”

Source : Jeff Galloway (1984). “Galloway's Book on Running”
“When I go to an opera performance and sit there while people are cheering and shouting "bravo," I sometimes ask myself what exactly they're cheering about. And I even see myself as an artist who also knows how to enjoy other people's performances.”
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.”
“All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.”

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