"Hope can get you through anything."

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Source : Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.230, Allison & Busby

Jamie Ford

“Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ...”
“The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.”
“I believe Social Security is unjust. I think it's wrong. I think it penalizes responsible people. It penalizes the young and it's a massive redistribution of wealth.”
“When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't”
“I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.”

Source : "Kaitlin Olson, Tualatin native, stars in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. September 15, 2010.
“I don't use many apps. I use naps.”
“Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.”
“So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.”

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