“We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.”
More from Sophie Kinsella on Life
“If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.”
“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”
“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”
“People change. Life changes. It's the way of the world. Maybe it's meant to be.”
“It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.”
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Mitch Albom
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Miller
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Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Søren Kierkegaard
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Margaret Atwood
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