"I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it."

-- Kevin Myers

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“The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.”
“He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.”

Source : Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing
“I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'”
“Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.”
“What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?”
“I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.”

Source : Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.159, Editions Didier Millet
“Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.”
“Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.”

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