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“Over the years, I've gradually realized that confidence must come from within, not from others' opinions, and that it's impossible to feel satisfied with yourself if you're constantly worrying about what other people think.”
― Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
― Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
“People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“What makes a romance romantic, the beginning or the end?”
― Seasonal Work: Stories
― Seasonal Work: Stories
“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering--a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons--a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting--three hundred million people all with the same face.”
― 1984
― 1984
“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person off a cliff solves nothing.
'Actually it would have made no difference,' he said.
'Then why are you sorry you didn't do it?'
'Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.”
― 1984
'Actually it would have made no difference,' he said.
'Then why are you sorry you didn't do it?'
'Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.”
― 1984
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