"Literature is the voice of the human heart."

-- Graham Swift

#Wise Quotes #Heart Quotes #Voice Quotes

“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those ***** crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”
“Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.”
“Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.”
“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the â€˜core aspect of the designâ€™”
“A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.”
“A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.”
“They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.”
“The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.”

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