"Demand more of yourself."

-- Ray Still

“There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.”
“I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.”
“To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.”

Source : Frances Trollope (2013). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.192, Courier Corporation
“Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.”

Source : "In Eutropium". I, 181. As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 93-96, 1922.
“Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.”
“I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.”
“For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldnâ€™t last for very long and Iâ€™d be sad again and then it would be worse because itâ€™s one thing to be sad and itâ€™s another thing to be sad once youâ€™ve been happy. Being sad after youâ€™ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.195, Cinco Puntos Press
“In this world, you get what you pay for.”

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