"All you really have... is now."

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Source : Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.107, Penguin

Jay Asher

“You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug”
“For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”
“I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.”
“The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.”
“Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes: that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses”

Source : "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.
“Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that's a challenge.”
“I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something...”
“Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.”

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