"There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writerâ€™s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

-- Annie Dillard

#Feelings Quotes #Quality Quotes #Progress Quotes

“If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.”
“A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.”
“I deteriorate. I might tell you something one day and then something else another day. You fold in on yourself and that's why this whole artistry thing is the devil. It's evil. I hope I don't succumb to it.”
“Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.”
“Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.”
“Tohr: "Doesn't have to be easy to be right." John: "In that case, we're meant for each other.”
“Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.”

Source : Gabrielle Bernstein (2011). “Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles”, p.110, Harmony
“Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.”

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