"Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it."

-- Paul Auster

#Mean Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Live Your Life Quotes

“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.”
“Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.”
“It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.”
“It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.”
“A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that”

Source : Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics
“I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.”

Source : "President Proposes". "TIME" Magazine, July 4, 1932.
“Style doesn't have seasons.”
“The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.”

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