"You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you."

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Source : Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.239, Scholastic Inc.

Libba Bray

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“Living in the present is the way to go. I know firsthand about getting caught up in the hurts of the past and the anxieties of the future and thinking that we are somehow making ourselves feel better by doing so. We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.”
“Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!”
“I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside,”
“The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.”
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories”

Source : Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC
“Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.”
“Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.”
“You have to have confidence in what you're doing.”

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