"You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst."

-- Italo Calvino

“Done is better than perfect.”

Source : Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.139, Knopf
“My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.”
“Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi”
“Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.”
“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
“Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“It has been an honour to be the coach of the best player (Messi) I have ever seen and probably the best I will see.”
“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”

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