"In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost."

-- V. S. Naipaul

#Army Quotes #Winning Quotes #Men Quotes

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
“Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium.”

Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.183, Akashic Books
“If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?”
“It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.”
“Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.”
“By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.”
“I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.”
“A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.”

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