Quotes 141 till 160 of 181.
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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
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Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
Storage and Stability Preface, p. vii -
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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