"He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be."

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Alice Sebold

#Children Quotes #Two Quotes #Clarity Quotes

“Our character is our will; for what we will we are.”

Source : Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press “Sermons”, Aeterna Press
“Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1920). “The House of Dust: A Symphony”
“The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.”
“Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.”
“There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.”
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
“And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.”
“You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways,”

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