"I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe."

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Lionel Shriver

#Safe Quotes #Damage Quotes #Common Quotes

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.”
“The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.”
“Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.”
“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.204, Faber & Faber
“Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.”
“Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.”
“You can tell a lot about a person by whatâ€™s on their playlist.”
“In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.”

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