"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#4th Of July Quotes #Long Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Shared world has done some world building and brings (in the case of FR and SW) a big audience. With your own work, you're more creatively free. In a way, the shared world stuff has a high floor but a ceiling.”
“But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.”
“The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.”

Source : Jeremy Narby (2016). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.104, Hachette UK
“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”
“The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!”
“The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.”
“People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ***** beats, good ***** raps, you're finally famous.”
“Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.”

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