"Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something."

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Source : Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

Cheryl Strayed

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“One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.”
“I've been a Democrat all my life.”
“Never beat yourself up, because there are plenty of people that will do it for you.”
“Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.”
“Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.”
“When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.”
“It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.”
“To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.”

Source : Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.493, Routledge

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