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“Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you.†“No, I don’t,†Thibault began. “Then why, my friend, do you still carry it with you?”
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“The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.”
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“So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.”
Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
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“When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of a luxury, rather than a necessity. Like a feng shui consultant.”
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“I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.”
Source : "The Next Crusade" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2007.
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“We do not write as we want, but as we can.”
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“Living the dream is simply a form of living your passion.”