"For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy."

-- Betty Fussell

#Independent Quotes #Joy Quotes #Path Quotes

“If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.”

Source : 'Say not the struggle naught availeth' (1855)
“And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.”

Source : Robert Jay Lifton (2011). “Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine ...”
“Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.”
“Fate will unwind as it must!”

Source : Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”
“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
“On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.”
“For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.”

Source : "Everything You Need To Know About Margaret & Walter Keane, Tim Burton’s Latest Obsession" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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