"Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors."

-- Milan Kundera

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“Real style is never right or wrong. It's a matter of being yourself on purpose.”

Source : G. Bruce Boyer (2015). “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear”, p.140, Hachette UK
“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
“Anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.”
“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”

Source : "The Anti-Male New York Times", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2003.
“I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.”
“Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.”
“We call it 3HO, an organization of healthy, happy, and holy people. It has no membership charge, no presidents, and at this point not even a secretary. Anybody can be a member who will promise that he shall undertake to practice these exercises, and to practice to breathe consciously. Be aware that the breath is the divine charge and it is a gift of the God.”
“The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.”

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