"I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'"

-- Shawn Johnson

#Doubt Quotes #Mind Quotes #Tears Quotes

“My favorite pastime is to write.”
“I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.”

Source : "Exarch Leonid Feodorov" by Paul Mailleux, (p. 181), 1964.
“Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits posted online for all to see are something absolutely other, uniquely themselves compared to canonical short stories, for example, and so it'd probably be best to call it something other than "online lit" since I honestly think very little of it can compare to so-called "literature."”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.”

Source : "World Cup 2014 talking points: is Van Gaal lucky or is it a steel nerve?" by Nick Miller and Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2014.
“There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.”
“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.”

Source : Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”
“When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.”
“I remind myself, there is a beginning and an end to all things.”

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