"Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories."

-- Teju Cole

#Mean Quotes #Self Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success”
“I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal. I will keep walking, touching every faces I drop through my lens. I will show the world - those unknown stories of sufferings. If a single hand comes to give them a shade that is the real honor of my sweat”
“I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.”
“The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.”
“I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.”
“Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.”
“I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.”
“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

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