"I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined."

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Source : Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Alice Sebold

#Beautiful Quotes #Smart Quotes #Trying Quotes

“What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.”
“Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening...”
“Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.”
“Is the cinema more important than life?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.101, Penguin
“The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.”
“Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.”

Source : "The Armchair Science Reader". Book by Isabel S. Gordon and Sophie Sorkin, 1959.
“And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew....”

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