"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."

-- Jimmy Breslin

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“A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.”
“Sometimes things that are comfortable are comfortable because it's what you're good at. When you start doing the things you're not as comfortable with, there needs to be a reason for it.”

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“Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (1995). “When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me”, p.180, Atlantic Monthly Press
“One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.”
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
“We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.”
“Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture”
“A caged canary is safe but not free.”

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