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 James A. Baldwin
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
