"If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at any rate. Or at least, if I'm not opposed, I'm very highly skeptical and critical of it."

-- Christopher Hitchens

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“You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.”

Source : "Brian McDermott has retained his beliefs despite dark times at Leeds" by Andy Wilson, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.
“I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.”
“The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.”
“All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.”
“The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.176, Vintage
“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
“Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I hold those wise who know how to be happy.”

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