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“You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.”
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Peter Abrahams
Source : Peter Abrahams (1965). “A night of their own”
#Men Quotes
#People Quotes
#Culture Quotes
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“The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.”
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Peter Abrahams
#Time Quotes
#Long Ago Quotes
#Magic Quotes
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“To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.”
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Peter Abrahams
#Real Quotes
#Nice Quotes
#People Quotes
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“To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.”
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Peter Abrahams
#Inspiring Quotes
#Grace Quotes
#Tragedy Quotes
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“You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.”
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Peter Abrahams
Source : Peter Abrahams (2009). “End of Story”, p.4, Harper Collins
#Good Person Quotes
#Badness Quotes
#Shows Quotes
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“Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.”
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Peter Abrahams
#Dream Quotes
#Lost Friendship Quotes
#Magic Quotes
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“What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?”
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Peter Abrahams
#Hate Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#People Quotes
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“They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.”
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Peter Abrahams
#Eye Quotes
#Brain Quotes
#Different Quotes
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“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.”
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Peter Abrahams
#Dream Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Self Quotes
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“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere”
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Peter Abrahams
#Mom Quotes
#Mother Quotes
#Atmosphere Quotes
