"A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it."

-- Alexander Pope

#Courage Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.”
“She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear â€¦" "And in boyfriends," I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that”
“Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says `I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'”
“A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Esther Freud, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“Time travel is such a magic concept.”
“The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.”
“My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from May 09, 2015
“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”

Source : Mary Butts (1988). “The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns”, Beacon Press (MA)

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