"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.”
“Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the Southâ€™s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of manâ€™s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.”
“There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.”
“All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business heâ€™d ever witnessed wakingâ€”the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.30, Granta Books
“It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.”
“Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.”
“The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.”

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