Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. - Robertson Davies

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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

Robertson Davies

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Genius, Offended, People, See

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Adversity, Become, Courage, Ordinary Extraordinary, People, Survive

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

Challenges, Mediocrity, Mistrust, Strongly

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Comprehend, Educational, Eye, Optimistic, Prepared

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Morning, Book, Reading, Maturity, Old, Moonlight

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

Asking, Buys, Like, Spiders, Writing

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Being oppressed means the absence of choices

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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

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Dathan Ritzenhein

My goal is to beat yours.

Goal, Beats, Beat

William S. Burroughs

A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.

Cutting, Hang, Junk, Running, Runs, Sick

May Sarton