"The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last."

-- Peter Meinke

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“So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been after fame. That sounds cliché, but it's true. I think fame sounds uncomfortable to me, but being able to like write this book and make my living doing very exciting, creative stuff sounds really amazing. It has been really amazing.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.”
“Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.”
“I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.”
“An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.”
“Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.”
“Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.”
“Today is not forever.”

Source : Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin: A Novel”, p.349, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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