"What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?"

-- Brad Gooch

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“I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.”
“I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it.”
“Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.”
“I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.”
“If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining”
“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.”
“And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because youâ€™re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.”
“I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.”

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