""...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world.""

-- Russell Simmons

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“Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled,”
“Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.”
“Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.”
“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”
“The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”
“I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.”
“If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.”

Source : Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1875). “English Portraits”, p.83, London : Daldy, Isbister
“There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.”

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