"Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers."

-- Neil Gaiman

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“I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.”
“The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.”
“You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.”
“Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.”
“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.”
“Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.”
“Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.”

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