"The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you."

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Source : Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Philip Roth

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“I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.”
“We are a very crafty family.”
“I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.”
“The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.”
“Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.”
“It's an opportunity of a lifetime to be teamed up with (Kevin) Harvick, with Tony (Stewart), Danica (Patrick). Us four in the same meetings, it could be hell or could be great. I'm just kidding about the hell part.”
“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
“In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.”

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