"Pain is always preferable to numbness."

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Source : Scott Anderson (1999). “Triage: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

Scott Anderson

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“I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself.”
“It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.”

Source : Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress”, p.312, Del Rey
“We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.”
“If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.”
“The mindset of the people who put the shows on and those who go buy a ticket is so fundamentally different. The band themselves don't have a sense of things, and I found this out after a lot of years of pain and frustration.”

Source : Source: alanpaul.net
“It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of minerâ€™s work; it doesnâ€™t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.”
“A company has to be like that person who turns his cuffs up a different way, who smokes a certain brand of cigarette, who wears an obscure vintage watch.”
“The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.”

Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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