"One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves."

-- George Eliot

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“Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.”

Source : "Alastair Cook gives England total control against shambolic India" by Mike Selvey, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2011.
“She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself”

Source : Miriam Toews (2001). “Swing Low: A Life”, p.69, Arcade Publishing
“In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.”
“If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.”
“Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.”
“In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.”
“There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.”

Source : "Futurism: An Anthology" edited by Laura Wittman, Christine Poggi, Yale University Press, (p. 52), 2009.
“We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.”

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