"The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina."

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Mary Schmich

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“Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.”
“i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.”

Source : Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”
“My most embarrassing moment was when I was a student at Tufts University and decided to go 'streaking' with a group of girls in the middle of January. Somehow I lost them and ended up being chased by the campus police.”
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
“I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.”
“I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and ***** made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.”
“An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.”
“I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.”

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