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“Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.”
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“When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter (this was a long time ago). As I've gotten older, I've learned to enjoy putting sentences together, though I still believe that writing, unlike sex, is always better after you're through.”
Source : Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com
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“I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.”
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“I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.”
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“Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.”
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“Try as you may, you can never defy love.”
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“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
Source : Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK
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“You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.”