"the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks."

-- John Marsden

#Crazy Quotes #Risk Quotes

“What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.”
“Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin
“I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.”
“It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.”
“The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.”
“We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.”
“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.”
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.83, Penguin

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