"What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins."

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Source : "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.

Gene Fowler

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“The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,”

Source : "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.
“Don't ever speak publicly about anything that you're not passionate about and that you don't actually believe you have something truly unique about it to deliver.”
“Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.”
“It didnâ€™t and doesnâ€™t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. Itâ€™s only a matter of how long you can live with it.”
“There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.”
“I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.”
“Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.”
“It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.”

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