"All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room."

-- Blaise Pascal

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“What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize I have spent whole days before this ink stone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head.”
“If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.”

Source : Interview with Angela Pneuman, www.believermag.com. October 2005.
“America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.”
“I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'”
“Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself”
“An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.”
“Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.”

Source : "The Silent Language". Book by Edward T. Hall, 1959.
“My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you.”

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