"best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!"

-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Way Quotes #Faces Quotes #Nightmare Quotes

“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.”
“Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.”
“The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all throughhistory we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed.”

Source : Larry Kramer (2007). “The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays”, p.98, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.”

Source : "An Exclusive Club". Interview with Gary Smith, www.si.com. June 27, 1994.
“For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.”

Source : Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.27, Wesleyan University Press
“As I look back at the last 15 years, one of the things that I'm most proud of is creating the cover. When I first did it, the first couple of years, people really criticized it and didn't think it would work at all. Now, you see it everywhere.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.”
“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself--nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”

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