"The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't."

--

Dorothy Draper

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“Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”
“There are many things a man will do, but betrayal for a price is not one of yours.”

Source : "Fictional character: Paul de Bursac". "To Have and Have Not", 1944.
“Of course that's the best way to continue to learn anything: Try to teach it!”
“Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible....”

Source : Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin
“Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.”
“A person who thought he knew everything simply didnâ€™t understand how much there was to know.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.546, Random House Books for Young Readers
“Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing bones became arms and hands; perhaps I'm de-evolving.”
“The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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