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“The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.”
Source : "Sam Shepard opens up". interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010. 
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“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.”
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“Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'”
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“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
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“It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.”
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“I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.”
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“And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.”
Source : Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20
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“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.”
