"My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing."

-- Amy Hempel

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“Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.”
“Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.”
“For us, launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and third-party publishers are doing it with games like ZombiU. For us, now is the right time to launch new hardware.”
“My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.”
“Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.”
“Where's the need of singing now?”
“In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.”
“Judging others will avail you nothing and injure you spiritually. Only if you can inspire others to judge themselves will anything worthwhile have been accomplished. When you approach others in judgment they will be on the defensive. When you are able to approach them in a kindly, loving manner without judgment they will tend to judge themselves and be transformed.”

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