"What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns."

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Source : "Anthem for Doomed Youth" l. 1 (written 1917)

Wilfred Owen

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“Real success comes in small portions day by day.”
“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”
“The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.”
“It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.”
“If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.”
“Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House
“If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.”
“Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.”

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