"Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality."

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Firsts Quotes #Immortality Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.”
“I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.”
“Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.”
“The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”

Source : Jon Ronson (2015). “So You've Been Publicly Shamed”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
“freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.”
“Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.”
“The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.”
“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”

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