"Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song â€“ if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say"

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Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Part II”

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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“Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points.”
“I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not”

Source : Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.86
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011
“Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!”
“I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.”
“One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.”
“I think that sexuality is only attractive when itâ€™s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something Iâ€™d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but itâ€™s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, realÂ art, comes from it, everything.”

Source : "When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way" by Richard Meryman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.
“The beginning is the promise of the end.”

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