"Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff."

-- Alice Mattison

#Upset Quotes #Able Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“I think Obama was terribly sexist.”

Source : "Gender Issue Lives On as Clinton's Bid Wane" by Jodi Kantor, www.nytimes.com. May 19, 2008.
“I believe people can change, but only for the worse”

Source : Song: Evil Twin, Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2, 2013
“Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.”
“How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!”
“Effort is between you and you.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 28, 2017
“That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.”

Source : Lynn Austin (2011). “Wonderland Creek”, p.10, Bethany House
“It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.”
“It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.”

Source : Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.29, Algonquin Books

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