"I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me."

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Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

Peter Cameron

#Awful Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Charming Quotes

“There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make it." There are definitely people who do that, and it shapes the rest of their life. And that's almost as unfortunate as someone who says, "Why bother? I'm not even gonna try." There are people consumed by that, and I've been affected by it. It's been a detriment for sure. It was ridiculous, and I don't want to see anyone go through that again. It makes me compassionate, and when I see it, it makes my shoulders tense up, and you remember it.”

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“I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.”
“To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.”
“When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.”
“I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long.”

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“We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.”
“My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.”
“Coach was going to make us do striders today, but I talked him out of it”

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