"The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview."

-- V. S. Pritchett

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“You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.”
“The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.”
“This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.”

Source : "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.
“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.30, Penguin
“I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.”
“Colin stared at the officer. â€œThorne, you scare me. Iâ€™m not ashamed to say it.”
“We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there?”
“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

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