"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."

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Octavio Paz

#Beggar Quotes #Western Quotes

“As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy”
“Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.”

Source : Ed Ayres (2013). “The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance”, p.91, Workman Publishing
“I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.”
“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.”

Source : Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”
“Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.”
“Go and fight every day, no matter what's happened the day before or what might happen.”
“It's in the silence that I'm most able to hear the tiny voices that tell me I'm not good enough, smart enough, or cool enough. I try to hear them for what they are: my own creations. Sitting with them, letting them speak, hearing them out, and giving them back the silence that I'm now sitting in has shown me that, quite often, they shut up.”

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