"This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'."

-- Will Self

#Attitude Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of them, banners and leaflets are others, but also a lot of minor crimes if you can connect them with the group - credit card fraud, thefts - these types of things have been used to support them.”

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“I'm far from perfect, but I don't think I'm ugly.”
“I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.”

Source : "Running A Comedy Machine: How Chuck Lorre Makes Hits". "Morning Edition" with Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. November 27, 2012.
“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”
“I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.”
“The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact.”
“The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.”
“And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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