"Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you."

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Source : William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

William Feather

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“There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?”
“Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.”
“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”
“I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.”

Source : Roger Lewis (1995). “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”, Cornerstone
“"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.258, U of Nebraska Press
“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.”
“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”
“The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.”

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