"I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of."

-- Marguerite Young

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“Every time I started a business and the people told me I was an idiot, I ended up making a lot of money. Si Redd used to say me, "Boy, you gotta be where they ain't." What that means is that you find areas of low competition because high competition means lower margins, and lower margins mean less profit. So we were always looking for places where we can be unique. If the thinking is out-of-the-box, people may not understand because they have not seen it before... Therefore you are an idiot.”
“Sometimes,â€ Joe said after a bit, â€œitâ€™s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if thatâ€™s what youâ€™re not, anymore.”
“But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.”

Source : Arthur Cayley, Andrew Russell Forsyth (1963). “The collected mathematical papers of Arthur Cayley”
“People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.”
“Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.”
“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.”
“I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul”
“It's a really incredible time to be working in television.”

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