"This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it."

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Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Steven Callahan

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“But the way they phrase those things when you get to the voting booth, you don't know which way you're voting, cause it's like, "Should we not eat unbabies not on this not day?" .... So you vote no on it, and then it's on the news the next day. "Well, 74% of Americans have decided it's time to eat babies."”
“I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.”
“I'm shocked, like all of us, including Donald Trump, 'cause let's not pretend that even Donald Trump thought he was going to win this election.”
“The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.”
“Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.”
“I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?”
“Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”

Source : "A Precocious Autobiography". Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew,

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