"Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality â€“ there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth â€“ actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested."

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Source : "The Pale King by David Foster Wallace - review" by Michael Sayeau, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2011.

David Foster

#Reality Quotes #Gentleman Quotes #Heroism Quotes

“The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.”
“Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!”
“The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?”

Source : "Eben Moglen: The dotCommunist Manifesto". Eben Moglen's speech at the Howard W. Odum Institute for Social Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 8, 2001.
“Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Glee's Jenna Ushkowitz". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 20, 2011.
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
“I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.”
“The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.”
“I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.”

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