"The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes."

-- Thomas Gray

#Pain Quotes #Eye Quotes #Land Quotes

“I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.”
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
“I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.”
“I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.”
“A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.”
“I remember one of my writer friends asking me, "Jonestown? Everyone knows the ending. What's new or surprising that you can say about it?" I told him that although people may know that almost one thousand people died in the massacre, they don't know what happens to my five people. Some escaped, some did not.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then it became "autism", and now it's "autism spectrum disorder". I'm not opposed to that from the standpoint of trying to broaden our vistas, and so forth. But from a research point of view, the term autism is lost in specificity.”
“The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.”

Source : Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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