"To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously."

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Source : Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

Nancy Mairs

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“I don't take drugs, I take books.”

Source : Ingeborg Bachmann (1990). “Malina: A Novel”, Holmes & Meier Pub
“In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.”
“It wasnâ€™t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didnâ€™t burst from lamps, and talking fish didnâ€™t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstoneâ€™s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasnâ€™t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasnâ€™t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.”
“There is a lot of focus on TV, in magazines...about being skinny and rich. I don't think those are that important. It's much more important for us to be good, honest people that try to help others and live the best life we can. That's where you get your satisfaction ultimately.”
“As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.”
“Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker?”
“Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.”
“You have something in this world, so stand for it.”

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