"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death â€“ fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant."

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Source : Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

Edna Ferber

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“Richness is not about what you have. It is about who you are.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 21, 2017
“I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.”
“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 19, 2016
“Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.”

Source : "Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like" l. 20 (1970)
“When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her silk sunset-coloured sari shot with gold. Rings on every finger. White dots of sandalwood paste over her arched eye-brows. Looking at herself like this, Ammu's soft mouth would twist into a small, bitter smile at the memory - not of the wedding itself so much as the fact that she had permitted herself to be so painstakingly decorated before being led to the gallows. It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood.”
“People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.”
“Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives our economic growth."”
“Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.”

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