"I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think."

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Source : "Ali's in wonderland" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2003.

Monica Ali

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“Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.”

Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.58, Granta Books
“I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.”
“You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.”
“The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.”
“True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.”
“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”
“I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.”
“Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.”

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