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-- Pete Stark

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“It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.”

Source : Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.25, Vintage
“There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.”
“Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.”
“I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to.”
“The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.”
“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
“A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.”
“I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.”

Source : "Showboat World" by Jack Vance, DAW Books, (p. 111), 1981.

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