"All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume."

-- Edmond Rostand

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“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
“I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career.”
“We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...”
“These motivational tapes have really inspired me! I'm going to make a million dollars, buy my own company and retire early. Then, I'm going to write a novel and a symphony and give all the profits to charity. Then next month, I'll figure out how to do it.”
“You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.”
“Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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