"There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving..."

-- John Updike

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“People happy in love have an air of intensity.”
“Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.”
“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.”
“The thought of a man being the murderer of his own daughter in the Twin Peaks was anathema to me. At the time, I had a 2-year-old daughter of my own, and that possibility really turned me off. I was praying that I wouldn't be the one.”
“Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.”
“I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.”

Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.61, New Directions Publishing
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”

Source : "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". Book by Haruki Murakami, April 12, 2013.
“Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.”

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