"And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians."

-- Elvis Costello

#Drinking Quotes #Heart Quotes #Comedian Quotes

“Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.”
“I'm not crazy, but it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.”
“Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.”

Source : "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.
“Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.159, Spectra
“If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.”
“America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.”
“Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'”
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

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