"What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had"

-- Jojo Moyes

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“Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.”
“If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.”
“The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'”
“In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.”
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline
“These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge...”

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd”, p.8
“The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.”
“We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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