"Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want."

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Source : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.36, Canongate Books

Ben Fountain

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“Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.”
“I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.”
“After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.”
“Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be”
“I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.”
“Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn’t see before.”

Source : "A Dead Bat in Paraguay: One Man's Peculiar Journey Through South America". Book by Roosh V, July 12, 2009.
“Always speak and think kindly about yourself, because your soul needs your love and approval.”
“There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.”

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