"I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Years Quotes #Avoiding Quotes

“Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.”
“Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.”
“I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.”
“My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.”
“Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.10, World Scientific
“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
“Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.”
“Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.”

Source : Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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