"For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent."

-- Alfred Nobel

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“Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.”
“I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.”
“A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.”

Source : Cyril Tourneur (1965). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.64, U of Nebraska Press
“Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated
“People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.”

Source : FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Feb 02, 2015
“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.”

Source : "How Do Our Worst Moments Shape Us?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, andrewsolomon.com. August 01, 2014.
“There were definitely parts of my character I didnâ€™t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didnâ€™t like myself much. But I got through each day as it came to me, and so far Iâ€™d survived every thing life had thrown at me. I could only hope that the survival was worth the price Iâ€™d paid.”
“Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.”

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