"But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created."

-- Ellen Hopkins

#Bullshit Quotes #Ghost Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Source : Hanan Al-Shaykh (2010). “Women of Sand and Myrrh”, p.352, A&C Black
“The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?”
“You can’t hurry love, and you can’t rush puff pastry, either. You can knead too much, and you can be too needy. Always, warmth is what brings pastry to rise. Chemistry creates something amazing; coupled with care and heat, it works some kind of magic to create this satisfying, welcoming, and nourishing thing that is the base of life.”
“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.”
“People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.”
“Be patient with yourself and take heart. Your self-confidence will grow if you seek challenges and worry less about the initial insecurity.”
“I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a radical who was willing to confront discrimination in ways that I thought it should be confronted, including perhaps the use of violence. But I really just wanted to be left alone. I thought some laws, like minimum-wage laws, helped poor people and poor black people and protected workers from exploitation. I thought they were a good thing until I was pressed by professors to look at the evidence.”
“It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.”

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