"Women have to learn where their true source of validation is."

-- Maureen Murdock

#Validation Quotes #Source Quotes

“You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.”

Source : Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.”
“For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.”
“Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.”
“The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.”
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

Source : "Bronte goes pop...", www.harpersbazaar.com. August 23, 2011.
“Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant.”
“I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.”

Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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