"I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell."

-- Peter Ackroyd

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“I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.”
“Love without trust is a river without water.”
“My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United? I donâ€™t play for money. I play for glory and winning championships. Iâ€™m happy here. I hear people complain about the weather, thereâ€™s nothing to do and the food. But, for me, itâ€™s not like that. I play for a club I love, the biggest club, and everything else doesnâ€™t matter.”
“The world loves talent but pays off on character.”
“There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until new apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking.”

Source : "Picturesque America, or the Land We Live In". Book edited by William Cullen Bryant, Volume 1, p. 502, 1872.
“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”
“But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.”
“You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.”

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