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As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from “victim” to that of “advocate” and “survivor.


Don Easton

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BRET EASTON ELLIS What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move th...
DON MARQUIS One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midst...
DON MARQUIS An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church ...
DON MARQUIS Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
DON MARQUIS An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
DON MARQUIS In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get...
DON MARQUIS I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your ...
DON CHEADLE Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
DON DELILLO Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu...
DON DELILLO I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin...
DON DELILLO I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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