"Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness."

-- Charles Stross

#Emotional Quotes #Self Quotes #Brilliant Quotes

“There is a time in a boyâ€™s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”
“Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.”
“A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over”
“I dreamed of becoming a writer. And . . . this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book . . .”
“I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.”

Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Becoming Chloe”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth”
“Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege.”
“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.”

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