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21 " I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the apex of human existence, and that to work at an ordinary office job was a betrayal of that life, and I had to pursue that life at all costs. Management consulting, law school, med school, those were fine for other people — I didn’t judge! — but I was an artist. I was super special. I was sparkly. I would walk another path.And I would walk it alone. That was another thing I knew about being an artist: You didn’t need other people. Other people were a distraction. My little chrysalis of genius was going to seat one and one only. "
― Lev Grossman
22 " During my 20’s and 30’s at some point I started to think, “I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people: don’t even bother thinking that you’re going to give up whatever your art or your creative thing is. It’s always there for you. "
23 " I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all. "
― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl
24 " It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable. "
― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
25 " It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly. "
26 " ...You have knowledge, and I have skill, and between us we have..." " We have the Ring of Erreth-Akbe." " Yes, that. But I thought also of another thing between us. Call it trust... That is one of its names. It is a very great thing. Though each of us alone is weak, having that we are strong, stronger than the Powers of the Dark. "
27 " It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian. "
― Israelmore Ayivor , Shaping the dream
28 " The question is not " can you wear your father's shoes?" . The question is " can you walk in your father's shoes?" . It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor. "
29 " Anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing will never discover his own. "
30 " Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women...And another thing let it do. There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is not room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw today, so come Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors. Let the memory direct your dealings with men and women. And be sure to take good care of Mama. Is it? "
― Richard Llewellyn , How Green Was My Valley
31 " There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness. "
― Michael Lee West , American Pie
32 " Well they were going to have to do a whole lot better than this if they wanted us Creeds to feel bad. If they thought they could hurt me or dad just by messing with my head at a tryout and cutting me from the team they had another thing coming. If there is one thing we Creeds knew how to succeed at, it was failure. "
― Perry Moore
33 " It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families. "
― Lemony Snicket , Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)
34 " That was another thing that was becoming overwhelming --- her emotions. She normally only seemed to have two --- happy or pissed off. "
― Samantha Chase , Holiday Spice (The Shaughnessy Brothers, #6)
35 " It was one thing to jack off. It was another thing to jack off and not secure your shit before you opened a goddamned door. That was like, Puberty 101. Or Being a Guy 101. Or Basic Fucking Common Sense 101. "
― Laura Kaye , Dare to Resist (Wedding Dare #5)
36 " But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Thus Spoke Zarathustra
37 " Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me "
38 " It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters. "
― Samantha Young , Shades of Blood (Warriors of Ankh, #3)
39 " Bedtime makes you realize how completely incapable you are of being in charge of another human being. My children act like they've never been to sleep before. " Bed? What's that? No, I'm not doing that." They never want to go to bed. This is is another thing that I will never have in common with my children. "
40 " Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first. "
― Shirley Abbott , Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
