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“And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.”
Source : John Osborne (1958). “Three Plays”
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“You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
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“The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.”
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“Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.”
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“What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.”
Source : Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons
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“I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.”
Source : "George Sterling, the Piedmontese restaurant connection" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. April 5, 2017. 
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“I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate things that might not at all seem to belong together within a narrative.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?”
Source : John Yau (2002). “Borrowed Love Poems”, p.31, Penguin
