"You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented."

-- Kodo Sawaki

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“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make oneâ€™s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldnâ€™t ask for anything better. Itâ€™s as near to godliness as I can get.”

Source : "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.
“Love is itself an expression of strength.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'”
“The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit â€” in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”

Source : "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 13 Dec. 1968
“Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.”
“I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.”
“I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.”

Source : Neurohypophysial Membrane From a Clinical Standpoint Yale University Press (1969)
“People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.”

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