"The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ..."

-- Sherwood Anderson

#Fighting Quotes #Self Quotes #Disease Quotes

“If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.”

Source : "Dree Hemingway on 'Starlet,' Porn and Her Famous Great-Grandfather, Ernest". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2012.
“If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.”

Source : "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.
“You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.”
“Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.”
“Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprÃ¨me de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croÃ»tons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.”
“For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.”
“From the end spring new beginnings.”
“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.”

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