I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. Helen Garner
You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.
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Roy T. Bennett
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
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Erol Ozan
We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
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Ken Levine
Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there...
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Rachel Hawkins
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
More Quotes By Helen Garner
I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result...
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of...
