"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them."

-- Catherine Drinker Bowen

#Friendship Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Character Quotes

“The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
“I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.”
“It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.”
“At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.”
“It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.”
“What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.”
“I got two choices, both require pain Oneâ€™s the pain of change and the pain of staying the same One of â€˜em leads to joy, other one leads to shame One of â€˜em leads to freedom, the other keeps me in chains.”
“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”

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