"Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!"

-- Joyce Carol Oates

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“The last 10 to 20 years youâ€™d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because thatâ€™s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?”
“It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.”
“Never index your own book.”
“A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.”
“I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?”

Source : "'Where Do We Go Now?' Asks Nadine Labaki" by Nana Asfour, www.newyorker.com. March 25, 2012.
“Books are not life, only its ashes.”
“We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.”

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