"This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted."

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Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

Kim Edwards

#Fighting Quotes #World Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.”

Source : Simone Signoret (1978). “Nostalgia isn't what it used to be”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.”
“If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.”
“Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.”
“We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.”
“I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.”

Source : "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, www.thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.
“The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012
“The world needs your story in order to be complete.”

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