"I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing."

-- Alice Walker

“I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.”
“When you look at women today, many take very good care of themselves - they exercise, they eat well, they achieve so much in their jobs. I think they feel good, they feel beautiful, and I believe they want to show their bodies.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.”
“We are the total of our longings.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.37, Hachette UK
“It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,”
“In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.”
“A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.”
“God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.”

Source : Louis Untermeyer (1935). “Selected poems and parodies of Louis Untermeyer”

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