"What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering."

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Harold Bloom

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“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”

Source : "The Big Book of Presidents: From George Washington to Barack Obama". Book by Nancy J. Hajeski, 2015.
“When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.”
“Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!”
“I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.”
“The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.”
“I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.”
“I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.”
“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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