"It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear."

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Jeanette Winterson

#Want Quotes #What You Want Quotes

“It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.”
“I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.”
“If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the earliest life forms and suggest that life started under the Ground. The bible talks of Eden as a sunny parkland with white fluffy clouds, but it probably ascended from the region that we now associate with Hell.”
“Heaven was not so far away in the eyes of these people (the Maya), who believed that individual, civic and social truths could be revealed by consulting with nature: the shifting of the wind, the arrival of the rain, the appearance of the stars”
“It's the excitement of being on the frontier.”
“A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.”
“Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .”

Source : Alexandra Stoddard (2013). “Open Your Eyes: 1,000 Simple Ways To Bring Beauty Into Your Home And Life Each Day”, p.8, Harper Collins

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