"A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism."

-- Italo Svevo

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“I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Bailey's Cafe: A Novel”, p.147, Open Road Media
“The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.”
“The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.”
“Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”
“I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.
“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”
“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.”
“The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.”

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