"It matters not how long we live but how."

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Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40

Philip James Bailey

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“I'm not really sick of people whipping their hair. It doesn't really get old. They're fans and I love them! It's just a fun game to play.”
“I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.”
“Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.”

Source : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins
“I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.”
“No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.146, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!”
“Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.”
“Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.”

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