"The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've been reading some philosophy - everybody seems to agree that the instinct and responsibility of all humans is to take care of themselves first. You have the right to self-defense. You have the right to survive, if you can."

-- Nancy Werlin

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“I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.”
“Man is programmed to find the programmer.”
“I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring or the email to pop up in our inbox. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen-if they happen at all-when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready.”

Source : "The Manifest-Station Q&A Series: Best-Selling Author Dani Shapiro". Interview with Jennifer Pastiloff, www.themanifeststation.net. September 29, 2013.
“I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.”

Source : "Ang Lee Talks Brokeback Mountain". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 7, 2005.
“I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.”

Source : Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2012.
“Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.”

Source : 'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106
“Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]”

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