"I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up."

-- Cornell Woolrich

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“If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.”
“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.”
“For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.”
“Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.”
“In any business, you have to evolve.”
“You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.”
“Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.”
“Successful blog is a unique voice; and depending on the blog, your own style factors in. To some extent, it might have to do with the graphic aesthetics of a blog. Pretty pictures go a long way these days and many personal style blogs owe a lot to a decent DSLR.”

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