"I will never step foot in the Octagon"

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Source : Twitter post from Nov 2, 2013

Jordan Burroughs

#Feet Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Look, I don't need to feel like hell for failing you, okay? For failing you like I've failed every other godforsaken thing that I care about! I don't need it!”
“A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.”
“The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0Â° to 1Â°.”
“Success is something you should never take into consideration: if you follow it it'll elude you. It's important to really love your work as a writer, to read loads to the point where you can recognise blindfolded, hearing them read, the writers of yesterday and today. It's important to write every day, for hours. To have faith in your imagination and let it wander.”
“If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.”
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, ***** causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?”

Source : William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.36, Penguin
“Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.”
“There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.”

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