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Gary Shteyngart

"We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?"

-- Gary Shteyngart

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“I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.”

Source : Marian Engel (1985). “The Tattooed Woman”, Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
“Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.”
“Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.”
“we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.”
“Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.”
“Integrity (in our model) is not about good or bad, or right or wrong, or what should or should not be.”
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

Source : Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books
“Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone elseâ€”our time, our love, our resources. I have always found more joy in giving when I did not expect anything in return.”

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