"There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear."

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Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis

Marion Milner

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“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
“I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.”
“I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.”
“You have to be ready for luck.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Source : Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin
“if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.”
“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”
“Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.”

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