"Determination could easily become obsession."

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Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.189, Hachette UK

N.K. Jemisin

#Determination Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“One of my New Year's resolutions is to say 'yes!' Yes to love, yes to life, yes to staying in more!”
“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”
“Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.”
“Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.”
“A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally”
“A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.”
“When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page keeps getting gold stars from me for doing wacko stuff all over the page. A riskier assignment for that student, who might be used to hiding behind a lot of formal armor, would be to try to do something straightforward, traditionally, in which they are much more directly laid bare for the reader.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.”

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