"You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"

-- Oscar Wilde

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“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”
“If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up. If I make it ten years - if I just wait - the conclusion might be something totally different. I think it's so cool to do things in which you discover the malleability of your own mind.”
“[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.”
“Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.”
“As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.”
“If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.”

Source : Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.30, Penguin
“Rather than beating yourself up for what you are not doing, appreciate and celebrate the things you are doing. When you shift your focus away from what you do not want, you can create a vision for what you do. Don't fight with yourself - focus on what you do, can do, choose to do, are ready to do.”
“It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.”

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