"I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun."

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Steven Pressfield

#Fun Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder â€” does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?”
“I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.”
“The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.”
“Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.”
“But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.”

Source : "Interview with Dominick Dunne". “CNN Larry King Live”, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2002.
“Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.”
“O God, make me good, but not yet.”

Source : "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.
“Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.”

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