"Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard."

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Source : Walter Dean Myers (1996). “Slam!”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

Walter Dean Myers

#Friendship Quotes #Cutting Quotes #People Quotes

“If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!”
“If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.”
“Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.”
“For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry Hill". "Goodfellas", 1990.
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“The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails stooping and returning to earthly origins, but also because, as we are rooted in this earth of everyday life, we find in it all the vitality and fertility unnoticed by people who merely tramp on across the surface, drawn by distant landscapes.”

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