"Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started."

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Divorce transforms habit into drama.”
“My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed,”

Source : "Moran peddles bill at SXSW" by Kim Hart, www.politico.com. March 14, 2012.
“I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.”
“People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.”

Source : "Trying to be good". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.
“Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.”
“With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.”
“Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.”
“Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.”

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