"I decided then and there I was never going to have kids."

-- Natsuo Kirino

“I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!”
“By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.”
“Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.”
“With you, what you see is what you get. And I see cheap.”
“How do you make things fair?”
“I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.”
“I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.”
“People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.26

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