"Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before."

-- Lisa Kleypas

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“Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.”
“I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as 'A thunder of worms.' Because I like that phrase. That's a phrase with soul. Worm thunder on the horizon, all is right with the cosmos.”
“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
“I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
“I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'”

Source : "Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
“A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper

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