"Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)"

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Connie Brockway

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“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”
“Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.”
“I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.”
“He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.”
“I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive individual enjoying an especially receptive moment. While that may be the case on rare occasions, the reality is usually far more prosaic. Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.”
“When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.”

Source : "Under the Hill and Other Essays". Book by Aubrey Beardsley, 1904.
“My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.”
“Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-Peopleâ€™s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.”

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