"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."

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Source : Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

Russell Baker

#Love Quotes #Misery Quotes #Company Quotes

“For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens with that. Because if you're not moving forward and you're not evolving, you're devolving, and I don't want to go backwards. I want to be better at what I do tomorrow than I am today. I don't want to be worse.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”
“When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.”
“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”

Source : Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.238, Spectra
“For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.”

Source : Bret Harte (1914). “The Writings of Bret Harte”
“I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.”
“What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown. It is this force in its insistence in its loyalty to us in its love of us in its most often mysterious ways that is far greater far more majestic and far more ancient than any heretofore ever known.”
“When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

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