"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."

-- Gustave Flaubert

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“I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.”
“I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.”

Source : James Crumley (2016). “Dancing Bear”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, â€œIf we can find the trillions [of dollars] weâ€™re finding for conflict whether thereâ€™s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money thatâ€™s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.â€”
“One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People" for class, I really just felt a home in her work. I had little guilt about the theft at the time. I sucked in my stomach and shoved the book into my pants. It's very big. I can still feel how it cut into my body in the most exciting way. Clearly, I don't feel guilt-free about this crime anymore - I wouldn't be mentioning here, looking for some absolution if I did.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.”
“The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.”
“I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.
“It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have.”

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