"Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it."

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Source : Tobias Wolff (2007). “This Boy's Life: A Memoir”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Tobias Wolff

#Fearlessness Quotes

“I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.”
“You go through so much with the heartache, the pain, the nonsense, the games, and it's easy to lose sight of the possibility of love.”

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“The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.”
“Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.”
“I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.”
“Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la...”
“To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.”
“Art is a self-replicating force.”

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