"Find the one thing youâ€™re good at and FOCUS on it."

-- Joyce Tenneson

“And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.”

Source : Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.51, Penguin
“While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.”
“Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.”
“The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.164, Routledge
“If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.”
“There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels,”
“What have I got better than anyone? Age.”
“Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.”

Source : "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XV, 1795-1822.

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