Steven Burleson
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Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change. Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving. It is not true that men are unwilling to change. It is true that many men are afraid to change. It is true that masses of men
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“As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.”
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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”
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“A foreign couple came in just after Nicky. The woman asked, ‘So, this is a library?’ Me: No, it’s a bookshop. Woman: So does that mean people can just borrow the books? Me: No, the books are for sale. Woman: Do you buy the books? Can people just come with a book and give it to you and take another one away? [will to live seeping away rapidly] Woman: Do you sell these old ones over here, or are they just for display?”
― Confessions of a Bookseller
― Confessions of a Bookseller
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