"I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too."

-- Norman Rockwell

#People Quotes #Letters Quotes #Notice Me Quotes

“Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.”

Source : Walter Wangerin (1993). “Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr”, Harpercollins
“I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many.”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
“A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.”
“Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot.”

Source : "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wncw.org. October 17, 2016.
“The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.”
“If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.”
“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”
“You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.”

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