"For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known."

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Source : Ann M. Martin (2013). “A Corner of the Universe”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

Ann M. Martin

#Perfect Quotes #May Quotes #Safe Quotes

“I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.”
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
“There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.”
“Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands...”
“When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.”
“If somebody mistreats you, treat ?em good. That kills ?em.”

Source : “Bobby Bowden: What I've Learned” by Call Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2009.
“The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.”
“But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.”

Source : "Full text: Blunkett's resignation statement", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.

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