"The proud will sooner lose than ask their way."

-- Charles Churchill

#Pride Quotes #Proud Quotes #Way Quotes

“Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.”
“In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, Iâ€™m very much a jazz poet.”
“All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.”
“I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.”
“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
“Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”

Source : Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.285, Bantam
“Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.”
“It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.”

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