"Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory."

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Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.195, Frog Books

John Steinbeck

#Mean Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Victory Quotes

“I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.”

Source : Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.134, Macmillan
“When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.”
“Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.”
“There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.”
“Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need -- another excuse to be jerks.”
“I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.”
“I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?”

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