"My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost."

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Source : Anchee Min (2004). “Empress Orchid”, Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

Anchee Min

#Memories Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.”
“If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.”
“Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.”

Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Snack Thief”, p.125, Pan Macmillan
“I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.”
“Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.”

Source : "Yelp CEO talks mobile growth, global expansion... and doner kebabs". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2013.
“A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.”
“In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that kind are tainted with ponderousness. Nietzsche wrote "with his blood," and criticizing, or, better, experiencing him means pouring out one's lifeblood. ... It was only with my life that I wrote the Nietzsche book that I had planned.”
“I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.”

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