"A person without curiosity may as well be dead."

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Source : Judy Blume (2009). “Summer Sisters: A Novel”, p.30, Delta

Judy Blume

#Curiosity Quotes #May Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.”
“...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should somehow be charged with murder for shooting our enemy. Its an insidious progression, the criticisms of the U.S. Armed Forces from politicians and from the liberal media, which knows nothing of combat, nothing of our training, and nothing of the mortal dangers we face out there on the front line.”

Source : "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10". Book by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson, www.motherjones.com. June 12, 2007.
“I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.”
“If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.134, Bantam
“If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”
“This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death.”

Source : William Wells Brown, Paula Garrett, Hollis Robbins (2006). “The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "strong, Manly Voice"”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA
“It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.”
“Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?â€ â€œIâ€™m not implying. Iâ€™m saying it.”

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