"I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be."

-- Anne Lamott

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“Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.”
“Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.”
“I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers”
“But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.14, University of Georgia Press
“You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.”
“One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.”
“I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.”

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