"All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty."

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Source : Michael Ventura (1994). “The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

Michael Ventura

#Pain Quotes #Giving Quotes #Safe Quotes

“Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.”
“If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.”
“I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.”
“No man can discover his own talents.”
“Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question is, 'How vulnerable?' In other words, is it really a problem for us, or is it just a small thing. How do you evaluate racism in America on a scale of 1 to 10? My suspicion is that most blacks overrate it a bit. Not to say it's not there, but we overrate it because this masking is part of our relationship to the larger society. This is a way we keep whites on the hook. We keep them obligated, and we keep ourselves entitled. There's an incentive, you see, to inflate it a little bit.”

Source : "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.
“At the end of October I started doing a bit more swimming and learning how to swim properly, because I hadn't really done it since I was at school. Then I really accelerated in December and for the whole of January's I've been doing at least one thing a day - normally a swim and a cycle, or a swim and a run, every single day.”

Source : "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.
“A bit of ***** after someone does wonders for the skin.”
“I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,”

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