"When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Boys Quotes #Effort Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Your very silence shows you agree.”
“When you educate a woman, you create a nation.”
“You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.”
“I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.”
“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glar ...”
“I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.”
“I will try to write books until I drop dead.”
“You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.”

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