"There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined."

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Source : Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.121, Open Road Media

Dorothy Allison

#Believe Quotes #Healing Quotes #Literature Quotes

“You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.”
“I hate that you do this to me. I hate how crazy you make me. I hate you! - Wendy”
“It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.”
“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”

Source : "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.”

Source : "Why I'm rowing across the Pacific". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April, 2010.
“Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster
“I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.”

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