"Anything that's worth anything is complicated."

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Source : Tom Rachman (2010). “The Imperfectionists: A Novel”, p.260, Dial Press

Tom Rachman

#Complicated Quotes

“Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!”
“Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact with them communicate and reason with them.”
“Whenever I hear a man or women express hatred for any race, I wonder just what it is in themselves they hate so much. You can always be sure of this: You cannot express hatred for anything or anybody unless you make use of the supply of hatred within yourself. The only hatred you can express is your own personal possession. To hate is to be enslaved by evil.”
“By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.”
“Positivity transforms us for the better.”

Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2010). “Positivity: Groundbreaking Research to Release Your Inner Optimist and Thrive”, p.24, Oneworld Publications
“What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!”
“Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.”
“The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?'â€Š”

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