"How would you know? Everythingâ€™s like sex. Itâ€™s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?"

-- Ned Vizzini

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“Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.”
“What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.”
“I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1972). “Neill! Neill! Orange peel!: An autobiography”, Hart Associates
“Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.”

Source : Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.44, New Directions Publishing
“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”
“There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.”
“Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.”

Source : Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.3, Vintage
“Without even asking, the paparazzi is following me around and I'm like, "I'm just a regular girl from Philly. I don't know why you guys are following me. This is really weird."And then the entire world is ridiculing me for things I've never even done.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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