"The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong."

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Source : "A qualified optimist" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2003.

Paula Fox

#Conscious Quotes #Doing Good Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“Knowledge exists to be imparted.”
“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.”
“It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?”
“I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.”
“A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.”
“My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.”
“I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.”
“A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.”

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