"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."

-- John W. Gardner

#Greatness Quotes #People Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
“For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.”
“If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.”
“For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.”
“War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.”
“I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.”
“Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.”

Source : "Speaking Frankly: What Makes a Woman Good in Bed". Book by Wendy Leigh, London: Muller, 1978.
“Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be...”

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