"I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself."

-- Thomas Bernhard

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“Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.”
“You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.”
“it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.”

Source : Edna O'Brien (1974). “A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories”
“Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.”
“Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.”
“I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.”
“I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.”
“Courage, AlexanÂder,â€ she whisÂpered. â€œCourage, TaÂtiana.”

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