"Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity."

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“If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.”
“I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.”
“Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by multiplying these by two or four, I obtain a definite number of colour fields that I multiply yet again by two, etc. But the complete realization of this project demands a great deal of time and work.”
“You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.”
“You can't start at the top.”
“The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.”
“All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.”
“Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?”

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