"We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven."

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Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jul 29, 2016

Chris Bohjalian

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“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”
“I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.”
“There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.”
“When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.”
“A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.”

Source : John Addington Symonds (1968). “The Letters of John Addington Symonds: 1869-1884”
“I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.”
“How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.”

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