"I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there."

-- Koren Zailckas

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“It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!”
“I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure intentions. I came from a true sport, an Olympic background, winning multiple national, international and Olympic medals. So I entered MMA as a sport.”
“If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether, it seems that the complete explanation of the whole matter is not given unless we are also informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, and next to which orbs of the Planets [the comet] traces its path, and by what course it accomplishes this.”
“I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.”
“I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.”
“Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.”
“It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled”

Source : Achmat Dangor (1999). “Kafka's Curse”, Pantheon

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