"Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were."

-- Richard Yates

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“Embrace whatever you're feeling. Whatever mask you have on right now, is okay. You're entitled to feel.”
“In our heads we're all about 33 years old.”
“The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.”

Source : 1859 Oblomov, pt.2, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).
“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.”
“In this box are all the words I knowâ€¦Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places.”
“Always try the problem that matters most to you.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.”
“What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.”

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