"In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there."

-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Fate Quotes

“The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.”
“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House
“To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.”
“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”
“Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.”
“We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.”
“Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough.”
“Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.”

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