"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse."

-- Janet Malcolm

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“One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press
“There have been times where I lost a job or whatever, and I think, "Okay, well that's just not part of my lane."”
“If something sucks, I've always been completely vocal about it, and I've been punished many, many times because of that. But I don't think I'd be in the spot I'm in right now if I wasn't me. I've always just been me.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.
“First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.”
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
“I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.”
“I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.”
“It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.”

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