"I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me."

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Source : Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

Romain Gary

#Mother Quotes #Dream Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“Unless you do this with an open heart, I donâ€™t think anything will come of it.”
“If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.”
“Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.”

Source : Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.
“I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)”
“There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.”

Source : Shannon Delany (2011). “Secrets and Shadows: A 13 to Life Novel”, p.257, Macmillan
“It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.”
“If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.”
“Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.”

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