"I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now Ive decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do."

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Helen Oyeyemi

#Reading Quotes #Character Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.”
“Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?”
“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.”

Source : "Interview with Laura Yorke". "Reader's Digest" Magazine, July 2006.
“I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.”
“One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.”
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
“There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.”
“It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.”

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