"The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up."

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Source : Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.62, Macmillan

Courtney Summers

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“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”
“If you donâ€™t believe in your product, or if youâ€™re not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.”
“Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays itâ€™s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. Itâ€™s not so important where it leads. thatâ€™s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.”
“I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.”
“I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.”
“If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.”
“The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.”
“Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.”

Source : "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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