"Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?"

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Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Young-Ha Kim

“Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.”
“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.”

Source : Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.135, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?”
“Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.”
“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself”

Source : Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions
“Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.”
“Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?”

Source : Anita Shreve (2007). “A Wedding in December: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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