"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

-- W. H. Auden

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“Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.”
“Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....”
“One manâ€™s â€œuglyâ€ is another manâ€™s â€œbeautiful.”
“Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.”
“Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.”

Source : "THE TV WATCH; O.K., Alex, Smart Nerds For $1 Million" by Alessandra Stanley, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2004.
“I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.”

Source : John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Taylor & Francis
“We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share”
“I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.”

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