"The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I donâ€™t know yet."

-- Gail Godwin

#Character Quotes #Littles Quotes #Missions Quotes

“I feel like Im too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.”
“The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
“My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”
“Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.”
“I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.”

Source : "Maggie's Centres: can architecture cure cancer?" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.
“There were only two kinds of people in our town. â€•The stupid and the stuck- â€•The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.”
“Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough â€¦ and then just let go of all the rest.”

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