"I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows"

-- Anne Tyler

#Believe Quotes #I Believe Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I don't consider myself a fashion person, I consider myself a shopping person. As a person who has girlie interests and a little bit of disposable income.”
“That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.”
“What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.”
“A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.”

Source : Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.253, Anchor
“Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust.”
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.”

Source : "David Cameron to Unveil New Limits on Extremists' Activities in Queen's Speech". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2015.
“If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.”

Source : Émile Coué (2016). “Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion”, p.12, FV Éditions
“It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.”

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