"I am free and that is why I am lost."

-- Franz Kafka

“My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.”
“But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.”
“I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.”

Source : "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2015.
“Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .”

Source : Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group
“History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.”

Source : Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”
“I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.”
“Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.”

Source : "Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors" edited by Martin M. Ballou, (p. 231), 1894.
“We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.”

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