"A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself."

-- Indro Montanelli

#Real Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never dispute that I am a privileged person. Nevertheless, when I started work I made 11 grand a year. I got my book deal on my own, my father didn't write those books for me, I did all of that entirely on my own. I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.”
“In Berkeley, California is no sense of the "white way being the right way." Parents also come in every variety - mixed race marriages, gay partners, divorced moms. We all love our children and want to do right by them, and that's what matters most.”
“The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.”
“Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!”
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”

Source : David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
“We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.”
“I'm forever BECOMING. I'll never be complete, because completion is death...”
“One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.”

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