"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."

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John Mason Brown

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“Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.”
“It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.”

Source : Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Chris Malloy (2013). “180¡ South: Conquerors of the Useless”, p.103, Patagonia
“Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act, that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty”

Source : "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.
“Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.
“For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks - accidentally - and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive.”
“I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.”
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”

Source : Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.333, Modern Library
“One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.”

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