"Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?"

-- May Sarton

#Laughter Quotes #Past Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.”
“I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.”
“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”

Source : "This business is hard and really mean" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2009.
“I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.”
“Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.”
“I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.”
“I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.”
“Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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