"If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?"

-- Joe Abercrombie

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“A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.”
“People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.”
“The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.”
“I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.”
“We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.”

Source : "Lamont launches Scottish Labour Party leader bid". www.bbc.com. November 7, 2011.
“I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and peopleâ€™s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.”
“It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.”
“In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.”

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