"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."

-- Charlie Finley

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“Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.”
“Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from? It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.”
“The time is gonna fly! You better make sure you're the pilot!”
“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”
“Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.”

Source : A History of Europe ch. 1 (1935)
“I wanted to curl up into a fetal position and start sucking my thumb, let my tears and dripping saliva pool under me. Sorry. I tried living, tried being sentient. Can't do it. Can't live in the same universe with that.”
“When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you line them up as actually as you possibly can, but sooner or later the book has got momentum and it's moving along under that momentum. It's like a sculpture, if you're working with the grain of the wood, the wood will start defining what shape it's going to become.”
“[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.”

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