"What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them."

-- Jean Paul

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“Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.”
“This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.”
“I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.”
“My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.”
“For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, ï¬nds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinterâ€™s position, ready to run.”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.94, Penguin
“The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.”
“Most of the smart things I've ever thought or written came vis-a-vis my body.”
“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.”

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