"When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it."

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Source : Tobias Wolff (2003). “Old School: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Tobias Wolff

#Cutting Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Self Quotes

“The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.”
“As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.”

Source : "The GQ&A: Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Talk Portlandia". Interview with Hilary Elkins, www.gq.com. March 1, 2013.
“Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Being a good writer doesnâ€™t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.”
“You're never a failure until you fail to get up.”
“The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return.”
“Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.”

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