"The Dark Dark is a far slower project, clearly, and that's a relief. I look for slowness anywhere I can find it."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
“There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.”
“In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.”
“You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.”

Source : "On Compromise". Book by John Morley, 1874.
“Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.”
“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”
“I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a ***** when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.”
“It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.”

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