Circumstances Quote by Jon Weisman

“I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.”

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I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

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Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

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