"The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received."

-- Whitley Strieber

#Christmas Quotes #Mother Quotes #Brother Quotes

“I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.”
“We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.”
“The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.”
“We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.”
“PhD, MFA, self-taughtâ€”the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.”
“Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.”
“The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.”
“The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.”

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