"Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first causeâ€”to look at them and make something of them."

-- Harry Crews

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“I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot.”

Source : "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.
“To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.”
“The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”
“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.”
“Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics”
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.”
“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.”
“He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.”

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