"I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was."

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Source : Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.58, Anchor

Jane Smiley

#Issues Quotes #Care Quotes #Tag Quotes

“I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.”

Source : "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“I want to play in a place people want to hear me.”
“If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.”
“The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.”
“If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.”
“The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.”
“But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life”
“Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”

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