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The Corset
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‘You are the butterflies, the flowers. Inside you possess everything the other girls lack. When they see that, they will have to admire you.’ I let him talk, but his words ran against the tide of everything I knew. At school, this wasn’t
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“To call him humble was to make rudeness normal. Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued; he had always wished himself to be truly honest, and always feared that he was not”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”
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“The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.”
― Μονόπρακτα: Η ανθρώπινη φωνή-Το φάντασμα της Μασσαλίας-Η ψεύτρα-Την έχασα
― Μονόπρακτα: Η ανθρώπινη φωνή-Το φάντασμα της Μασσαλίας-Η ψεύτρα-Την έχασα
“Our society is becoming increasingly aliterate, says Cullinan. “An aliterate is a person who knows how to read but who doesn’t choose to read. These are people who glance at the headlines of a newspaper and grab the TV schedule. They do not read books for pleasure, nor do they read extensively for information. An aliterate is not much better off than an illiterate, a person who cannot read at all. Aliterates miss the great novels of the past and present. They also miss probing analyses written about political issues. Most aliterates watch television for their news, but the entire transcript of a television newscast would fill only two columns of the New York Times. Aliterates get only the surface level of the news.”13”
― Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I
― Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I
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