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“Music is my higher power”

Quote by Oliver James

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Oliver James is a British clinical psychologist born in 1953. He is renowned for his research on human behavior and emotions, particularly in the fields of family and child psychology. James's writings cover a wide range of topics from parenting to social psychology. more

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“Backing down can become a way of life.”

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“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.”

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“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”

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“Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]”

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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

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“I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.”

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“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”

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Book:The Penelopiad

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“Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.”

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