"You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start."

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Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.108, Penguin

Laura Dave

“Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.”
“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”

Source : Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.”
“Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.”
“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”
“Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the friend, one wound leads to another. But when the child can experience the consoling embrace of a parent, she or he can live through the pain, return to the friend, forgive, and build up a new relationship. Be gentle with yourself, and let your heart be your loving parent as you live your wounds through.”
“Bear calamities with meekness.”

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