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“Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.”
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“I always do my interviews face to face.”
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“I want to chase the butterflies.”
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“There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses, our own should's and shouldn'ts, and our self-worth is in us, controlling us a lot. When we can get past all of those, and get to the deep, core part of us, there's a voice within our soul that I believe is connected to our Divine or Higher Self. That voice within is there to guide us through all aspects of our lives.”
Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
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“... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.”
Source : Shirley Boone (1972). “ONE WOMAN'S LIBERATION”
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“I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.”
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“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.”
Source : Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
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“...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.”
Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.45, Canongate Books