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Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers. ↗

— Christian Bauman

#books #literature #change

The ones that are crazy enough to believe that they can change the world are the ones that do. Tim Durling ↗

— Tim Durling

#books #fantasy #tim-durling #change

Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#outlook #change

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#cigarettes #duff #exactly #girl #healthy

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#adversity #cherokee #collectively #continue #down

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#writing #change

One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#change #words #change

Don't get me wrong. I love a Denver omelette as much as the next girl. But I'm curious whether that’s your thing, or if you try to change up the routine depending on the specific woman. You know… like, green pepper because I have green eyes, ham because I’m so funny, and onions for all the tears you’ll shed after I leave. ↗

— Julie James

#change

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails…and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.” — Anonymous Curse on Book Theives from the Monaster of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#essays #literature #quotes-to-live-by #change

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#cherokee #chief #election #grow #grow up