"And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?"

-- George Gissing

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“I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time. . . . Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation-for being alive to have this particular moment.”
“Don't die like I did.”

Source : George Best's last words, published in "News of the World" with a picture of Best lying in his hospital bed, five days before his death, November 20, 2005.
“I don't like to sell my finest pieces.”
“Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.”
“If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!”
“I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me laugh.”

Source : "Nathan For You's star confronts the A.V. Club mom who scorned him". Interview with Bonney Teti, tv.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.
“Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.”
“I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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