"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

-- Emily Dickinson

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“If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.”
“I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.”
“Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.”

Source : Neil Simon (1988). “Biloxi Blues”, Signet
“Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'”
“My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.”

Source : Rebecca Lim (2010). “Mercy (Mercy, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK
“Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.”
“H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down and crawl around inside it. But, look, the guy was eating poorly, he had like a quart of ice cream a day. He was suffering constantly near the end. He wasn't concerned with his body at all, not the way we're concerned with our bodies nowadays.”
“I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with the small amounts of distress that come just by living itself. It isn't that we're chasing happiness; I think we have the wrong model of happiness. I mean, defined as eudaimonia, defined as a values-based life of integrity and fidelity to yourself and what you most deeply want to stand for, that definition of happiness - man, that's the kind of life I want to live and I think that will support people and sustain people.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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