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“We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.”
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“Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)”
― Life is Elsewhere
― Life is Elsewhere
“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy...”
― Beastly
― Beastly
“Filipino people, the people of Tacloban, and Samar, and Cebu, and all these places where so many have died, they are strong not just to have survived this storm, but they are strong to have survived the aftermath of this storm. They have survived for a week now, often with very little food, with very little water, with very little medical attention. Can you imagine the strength it takes to be living in a shack, to be living, sleeping on the streets next to the body of your dead children?”
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