"I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness."

-- Mary McCarthy

#Winning Quotes #Fame Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.”
“I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.”
“Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.”
“The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.”

Source : "This much I know" by Paul McGann, www.theguardian.com. June 04, 2011.
“When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.”
“Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”
“In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.”
“Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions”

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