"Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds."

-- Helen Hooven Santmyer

#Mind Quotes #Doe Quotes #Youth Quotes

“The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.”
“What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.”
“Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.”
“But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough. But I was tougher.”
“Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.”
“A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.”
“Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.”
“Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.”

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