"Please make me either relatable or terrible."

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Jami Attenberg

#Terrible Quotes #Please Quotes #Relatable Quotes

“Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.”

Source : Princeton University, James Mark Baldwin (1896). “Contributions to Psychology”
“Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.”
“Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.”
“By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.”
“But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.”

Source : Heather Gudenkauf (2016). “The Weight of Silence”, p.40, Harlequin
“We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.”
“Breaking Away' was a great experience. It's the kind of movie that engenders a lot of goodwill from people.”
“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”

Source : Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

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