"It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon."

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Source : FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Sep 20, 2016

Rick Bragg

#Men Quotes #Dragons Quotes #Ice Quotes

“Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.”
“The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. In this state you think no impediment can be large enough to interrupt your passion. The feeling spills beyond the object of your love to color the whole world. The mood is not unlike the mood of revolutionaries in the first blush of victory, at the dawn of hope. Anything seems possible. And in the event of failure, it will be this taste of possibility that makes disillusion bitter.”
“To boldly grow where no one has groan before.”
“The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.”
“That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.”

Source : "Persa". V, 1, 10,
“The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.”
“Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.”
“There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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