"You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea."

-- Sinead O'Connor

#Sea Quotes #Trying Quotes #Pure Quotes

“I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.”
“People get really irritated by mental illness.”

Source : "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.”

Source : Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“You donâ€™t have the same type of focus when you are undefeated.”
“The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.”

Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.53, The Overlook Press
“There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book”
“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
“It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.”

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