I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa
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Lauren Oliver
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
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Norman Maclean
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
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Orson Scott Card
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
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Chuck Palahniuk
I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.
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Dee White
More Quotes By Leo Rosten
The purpose of life is not to be happy–but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
