"There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them."

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Source : Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.117, Anchor

Ali Smith

“By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“I liked the drama of getting stoned.”
“I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.”
“Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.”
“Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.”
“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”

Source : David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.17, Shambhala Publications
“Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”
“Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.”

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