"Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers."

-- John Berryman

#Vanity Quotes #Self Quotes #Blame Quotes

“No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.”
“Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.”
“Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.”
“The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.”
“There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.”

Source : "Leslie Nielsen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 29, 2010.
“No one is going to abduct me, Rae." "That's what all abductees say.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2008). “The Spellman Files: Document #1”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
“The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.”
“Your mine, angel. And I won't let anything change that.”

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