"I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!"

-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”
“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.”
“At my age flowers scare me.”
“Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.”
“How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.”
“When you start moving into the internal stuff, you start learning how you don't get your power from your muscles. You open up the energy channels inside your body and you shoot something through them and all of a sudden, you've got many times the power you could get physically, or even if you don't, some other things. To get this power to come from inside you, this chi, this energy from inside you, you have to learn how to completely relax.”
“I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.”

Source : "Bertiespeak: Blasts From the Past". www.independent.ie. July 05, 2007.

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