"A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good."

-- Rick Bass

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I realise itâ€™s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone Iâ€™ve ever met, wants to kiss me.”
“If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.”
“The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.”
“I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation.”
“These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.122, Knopf
“I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.”
“Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015
“If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.”

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