"The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America."

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Anna Quindlen

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“Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.”
“I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.”
“[W]hen someone speaks we ought to get three things out of the message. First and least important (but still very important), we ought to get what is said. Second, and more important, we ought to have a spiritual experience. Third, and most important, we should keep the commitments we make to ourselves”
“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”

Source : Henry Hardy, Isaiah Berlin (2016). “The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism”, p.11, Brookings Institution Press
“While there are things with this job that remain constant, in terms of how you shoot, the actual crux of the character is always different and always evolving.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!”
“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”
“I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall,”

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