"When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in."

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Rachel Gibson

#Pain Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Locks Quotes

“Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.”
“Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.”
“Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.118, Penguin
“He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasnâ€™t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd
“You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?”
“It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.”

Source : William Bartram (1794). “Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida (etc.) 2nd Ed. - London, J. Johnson 1794”, p.20
“Gay men greet each other just like straight guys do... If one of the straight guys saved the other one's life.”
“Posterity is always just.”

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