"For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference."

-- Robert Fulghum

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“I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.”

Source : "Gold Medalist Bryan Clay Goes Beyond Reason for Games". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2012.
“When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.”
“I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.”

Source : "My Life". Book by Oskar Kokoschka, 1974.
“We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.”
“The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives... The sun will burn you by day and the cold will shrivel you by night. You'll be racked by fever and tormented by a hundred discomforts, but you'll go on. For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine... it's a sort of madness...”
“I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.”
“Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.”
“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.”

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