"Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect."

-- BrenÃ© Brown

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“If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.”
“There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.”
“Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so ***** central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.”

Source : James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”
“The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.”
“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.”
“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.”
“Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.”

Source : Emily Prager (1987). “A visit from the footbinder, and other stories”, Vintage

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