"Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless."

-- Amy Bloom

#Lying Quotes #Grief Quotes #Mean Quotes

“As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.”
“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”
“Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .”
“It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box”
“By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.”
“I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the consciousness of the Heavenly Man, is the goal for the human being, so for him, also, there may be a goal, and for him the achievement may be the development of God consciousness.”

Source : Alice A Bailey (2010). “The Consciousness of the Atom”, p.36, Lucis Publishing Companies
“The Retrofire rockets seem to be responding well”
“Over the last ten years, breaking into comics has changed so much. There used to be specific ways about how to do it ... and now, just like there are so many different ways people are getting exposed to comics, there's no single way that people are breaking in anymore.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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