"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75"

-- Irwin Shaw

“A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.”
“you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.”
“If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'”
“No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?”
“Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?”

Source : "Song: "There There My Dear" ("Searching for the Young Soul Rebels")". 1980.
“One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.”
“When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.”

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