"I knew there was a way out...." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
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“We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.”
“Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.”
“When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.”
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“I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.”
“Literature is my Utopia”
“The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.”