"What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning."

-- George Orwell

#Years Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Secret Quotes

“I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.”
“The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.”
“Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.”
“I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.”

Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.
“I've always been into the not stereotypical hunk guy - I'm into dorky, like I call it adorkable. And I think that a lot of girls are into that. I think there's something disarming about it and endearing and also puts you at ease and there's an attractiveness there - it's like a good sense of humor, self-deprecating, weirdness. You know? Because I think we all have that in ourselves, but we just try to hide it because it's not "cool," but a lot of people can kind of relate to that feeling or the outsider feeling.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”

Source : 1948 The Great Tradition, ch.1.
“The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?”
“Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.”

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