"When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world."

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Source : Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.261, Vintage

Austin Grossman

#Lying Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?”
“Some people are just born to cook and talk.”
“It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.”
“Judge not unless you judge yourself”
“One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!”

Source : Preface to his book "Oriental Adventures", 1985.
“It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little . . . We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work . . . in order to free their hold.”
“I just wear what I like and lots of it is British,”
“I stay with my family. I try to be a good husband and good dad. That's my real life.”

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