"You may need to change your dreams."

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Source : Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.180, Penguin

Jean Kwok

#Dream Quotes #Needs Quotes #May Quotes

“The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.”
“If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.”
“When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.”
“A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and chlalenges people to work for something they do not yet know how to do.”
“Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.”
“I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.”

Source : Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.140, Transaction Publishers
“Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.”
“Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.”

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