"I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one."

-- Sarah Waters

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“Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.”

Source : "Fictional character: Detective Mike Logan". "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", m.imdb.com. (2001–2011).
“You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.”
“There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.”
“Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.”
“It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.”
“I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.”

Source : "Faith, Family, and Religious Freedom: A Conversation with Justice Samuel Alito". Interview with Eric Banecker, www.semcasual.org. May 17, 2017.
“While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.”

Source : Sigurd F Olson (2012). “LISTENING POINT”, p.10, Knopf
“I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.”

Source : Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”

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