Oleanders Quotes - Page 2

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

  Janet Fitch

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Loneliness

  "White Oleander". Book by Janet Fitch, 1999.

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• The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

  Janet Fitch

  Want, Way, Cattle

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

  Janet Fitch

  Mean, Artist, Self

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• You must always know what it is that you want.

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist, Personal Legend, Want

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Cost, Forget

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

  Janet Fitch

  Rocks, Want, Pale

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• How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.

  Janet Fitch

  Survival, Suffering, Care

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• The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means to be self motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

  Janet Finch

  Father, Philosophy, Mean

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• This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

  Janet Finch

  Destiny, Race, Fuel

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• ...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

  Janet Fitch

  Self, Height, Mistrust

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.207, Hachette UK

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• The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.

  Isak Dinesen

  Attitude, Curves, Long

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

  Janet Fitch

  Play, White, Enemy

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