"None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway."

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John Brandon

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“All the good are friends of one another.”

Source : "Stromata, vol. 14". Book by Clement of Alexandria, II AD.
“I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person.”
“I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes.”

Source : Playboy magazine, February 1972.
“Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.”
“Although we think of them as extraordinary, miracles also streak across our consciousness every day. We can choose to notice or ignore them, unaware that our destinies may hang in the balance. Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine. Ignore it, and an opportunity is gone forever.”
“All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.”
“I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.”
“Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.”

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