"Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends."

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Source : Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.332, Health Research Books

Marie Corelli

#Greatness Quotes #Envy Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes

“Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.”
“I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.”

Source : "In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.
“I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.”
“I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends.”
“She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed.”
“the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.”

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