"Imitation is suicide, envy is ignorance."

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Ralph Ellison

#Suicide Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Envy Quotes

“Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they can't make the connection between entertainment and thought, they want immediate kicks. People will not be human until they get pleasure from thought. Only a thinking person can be a full person.”
“I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.”

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“I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.”
“Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.”
“The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.”
“I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.”
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”

Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.208, Penguin

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