"Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world."

-- Gertrude Atherton

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“Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.”
“Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedly long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.”

Source : Otis Williams (2002). “Temptations”, p.49, Cooper Square Press
“The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.”

Source : Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.
“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”

Source : Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.74, Pearson Education
“If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.”

Source : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
“I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.”
“Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for their masters and mistresses for many years. You see mothers who have missed their sons. Fathers who had never spoken of love to their children, ready to embrace them as they voyage from the end of life. It shows the lies of this world, you see. We are wrong about so many things here. Mankind has done terrible things, yet we are forgiven.”
“When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.”

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