"You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin."

-- Junot Diaz

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“Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.”

Source : David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.243, Simon and Schuster
“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.”
“Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.”
“I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.”
“Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.”
“In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.”
“I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.”
“To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

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