"People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see."

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Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.30, Random House

Erin Morgenstern

#People Quotes #Wish Quotes #Cases Quotes

“Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.”
“A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”
“I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.”
“Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. Iâ€™m just doing better than what everybody projected.”
“Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.”
“The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.”

Source : Mel Odom (2007). “The Quest for the Trilogy: A Rover Novel of Three Adventures”, p.872, Macmillan
“I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.”
“But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.”

Source : Mankind Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2 (p. 231), Winter 1998.

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