"I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead."

-- John Fowles

#Beautiful Quotes #Hate Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.”
“Focus on your strengths.”
“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
“It's like there's this knowledge hanging in the air that one person has more power than the other, and we're supposed to pretend everything is nice and normal and equal, but in reality, luck or chance has showered benefits on one person that the other person couldn't dream of.”
“Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.”
“Time is generally the best doctor.”
“I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.”

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