"Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces."

-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?”

Source : Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.657, Macmillan
“The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.”
“Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.”
“There's existential fears I have - losing passion and creativity and just kind of floating through life. When I feel a little lost - pulled away by the noise of what you're supposed to be doing and what your social following is - I go back to the things that inspire me.”

Source : "An Interview with Richard Branson, Jimmy Chin, and Ben Stookesberry". Interview With Paul Solotaroff, www.mensjournal.com.
“We are not youth any longer. We donâ€™t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
“What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.”
“The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.”
“the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...”

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