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![Julian Barnes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1606567988i/1462._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
![Mother Teresa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263888735i/838305._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg)
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”
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![Charles Dickens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1387078070i/239579._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
![Betty Mahmoody](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1337864813i/24349.jpg)
“Sé que mi familia es así pero este silencio me pesa. Tengo la impresión de tener millones de cosas que decir que, en el fondo, no interesan a nadie. Me viene a la memoria lo que decían los supervivientes de los campos de la última guerra al volver a su hogar: las pesadillas no se cuentan. Los demás no imaginan este género de pesadillas. Se instala, entre ellos y nosotras, una especie de statu quo que parece decir: ‘Estás aquí, se acabó, no hablemos más de ello.”
― For the Love of a Child
― For the Love of a Child
“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
― Living the Best Day Ever
that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
― Living the Best Day Ever
![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
![Gil Scott-Heron](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1306790600i/267657._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Because I always feel like running
Not away, because there is no such place
Because if there was, I would have found it by now
Because it's easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one who didn't run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described,
As in "the long run"
Or as in having "given someone a run for his money"
Or as in "running out of time"
Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for that
Because I will be running in the other direction, not running for cover
Because if I knew where cover was, I would stay there and never have to run for it
Not running for my life, because I have to be running for something of more value to be running and not in fear
Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from,
Not without showing the fear as I see it now
Because closer, clearer, no sir, nearer
Because of you and because of that nice
That you quietly, quickly be causing
And because you're going to see me run soon and because you're going to know why I'm running then
You'll know then
Because I'm not going to tell you now”
― Now and Then...
Not away, because there is no such place
Because if there was, I would have found it by now
Because it's easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one who didn't run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described,
As in "the long run"
Or as in having "given someone a run for his money"
Or as in "running out of time"
Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for that
Because I will be running in the other direction, not running for cover
Because if I knew where cover was, I would stay there and never have to run for it
Not running for my life, because I have to be running for something of more value to be running and not in fear
Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from,
Not without showing the fear as I see it now
Because closer, clearer, no sir, nearer
Because of you and because of that nice
That you quietly, quickly be causing
And because you're going to see me run soon and because you're going to know why I'm running then
You'll know then
Because I'm not going to tell you now”
― Now and Then...
![Mark Twain](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322103868i/1244._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
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![Paul Auster](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1554662932i/296961._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.”
― The New York Trilogy
― The New York Trilogy
![Jeffrey Rasley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639000315i/4114763._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”
― Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
― Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get
across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent.
People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality
of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality
of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
― Living the Best Day Ever
― Living the Best Day Ever
![Germany Kent](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1587890777i/8557658._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
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![Elbert Hubbard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1216826209i/114059._CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”
― Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book
― Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book
![Rachel Carson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397487410i/15332._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
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![Alexander Vassilieff](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1259389549i/2773695._UY200_CR28,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
― ODYSSEYA -- An Epic Journey: From Russia to Australia
― ODYSSEYA -- An Epic Journey: From Russia to Australia
![Larry Godwin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1592590823i/1180441._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes when I’ve felt despondent for several days, it helps to discipline myself by saying, ‘I’m going to think only positive thoughts.’ Enough is enough!”
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
![Bauvard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1358379082i/6676833._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.”
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
![Larry Godwin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1592590823i/1180441._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“With all this talk about taking my life, why have I never attempted it? Answer: I have an overwhelming desire to live.”
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
“In their hearts, they know that we are all created equal in the eyes of God and the universe. Whoever thinks otherwise will never be happy.”
― America's Daughter
― America's Daughter
![Larry Godwin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1592590823i/1180441._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“My therapist opens my wounds a little deeper, then picks at the scabs.”
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
“In your heart, you will always be African, but in America you are a Black American. It is possible and desirable to be both.”
― America's Daughter
― America's Daughter
“I wanted to share with Black Americans the beautiful and empowering aspects of Africa.”
― America's Daughter
― America's Daughter
![Karen Hinton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1680212389i/7972323._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“The last few weeks of that summer, Janice lost interest in our conversations…. Her mind was taking her to other places, as though she was listening to a song or watching a movie or reading a book we could neither see nor hear.”
― Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
― Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
![Karen Hinton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1680212389i/7972323._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“We…realized that no matter who won the race, we were girls, and we were from Soso, Mississippi, population 434, which meant we were destined to be last in pretty much everything else.”
― Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
― Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
![Karen Hinton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1680212389i/7972323._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“…I was finding that reporting the news wasn't enough. I wanted to be more than just a paid observer. I wanted to be in the fight. I got my chance.”
― Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
― Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
![Mallory M. O'Connor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1502030620i/2888909._UY200_CR27,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We quickly became friends with other art faculty members such as the ceramist Jim Leedy and his wife Jean and art historian/artist Bill Kortlander and his wife Betty. I also began taking classes in Southeast Asian history with John Cady, who had resigned from his position at the U.S.[CB4] [mo5] State Department because he thought it would be a huge mistake to get involved in a “land war in Southeast Asia.” In 1966, his warnings were starting to become all too obvious as the Vietnam war grew and protests against it emerged. Dr. Cady was in the thick of the protests and was even being shadowed by the F.B.I. After I finished my BFA in art in 1966, I began work on a master’s degree in history at Dr. Cady’s urging. He and his wife became frequent guests at our parties”
― The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art
― The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art
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