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Ariel Gore

"Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before youâ€™re dead, youâ€™ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who arenâ€™t holding any paper."

Source : Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.7, Three Rivers Press

Ariel Gore

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“When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.”
“The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.”
“FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.”
“I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.”
“I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.”
“Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.”
“Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.119, Vintage
“A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.”

Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo, D. E. Tarver (2002). “The Hagakure: Yamamoto Tsunetomo”, p.21, iUniverse

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