"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."

-- Robert B. Parker

#Giving Up Quotes #Son Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you”
“All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.”

Source : Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”
“No one is free who does not lord over himself.”
“I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.”
“To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.”
“Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run”
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”

Source : "'De l'Art de persuader' ('On the Art of Persuasion')". Book by Blaise Pascal, 1658.
“Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.”

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