"Every man is the artisan of his own fortune."

-- Appius Claudius Caecus

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“People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.”
“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”
“Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.”
“What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.”
“The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.”
“Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter.”
“When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.”

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