"She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside."

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Source : Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

Dorothy Koomson

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“It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.”
“We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)”

Source : Erich Segal (2013). “Doctors”, p.9, Hachette UK
“I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.”
“I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.”

Source : "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.
“Itâ€™s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.”
“There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.”

Source : Moshe Kasher (2012). “Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16”, p.179, Hachette UK
“At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.148, Macmillan

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