"When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was."

-- Alice Sebold

#World Quotes #Safe Quotes #Assumption Quotes

“After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.”
“Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.”
“A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.”
“We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.”

Source : Source: www.blogher.com
“Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.”
“Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.”
“Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.”
“There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction. To that and to the art of telling good lies. And what is fiction but the telling of lies?”

Source : Donna Levin (1996). “Get That Novel Written!”, Writers Digest Books

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