"I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~"

-- Gore Vidal

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“In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.”

Source : Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384
“Itâ€™s one thing if a person learns youâ€™re a witch. Itâ€™s quite another if he learns youâ€™re a murderer. I almost forget Iâ€™m a witch now that I know Iâ€™m a murdererâ€”murderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse.”
“When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.”
“Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.”
“I think most folks are good folks.”
“I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.”
“It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.”
“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.”

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