"There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes."

-- George Jean Nathan

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“Whoever can surprise well must conquer.”
“I think itâ€™s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it Iâ€™ve never had any fear in my whole life when weâ€™ve been near collapse and all of that. Iâ€™ve never been afraid. Iâ€™ve never had the feeling I couldnâ€™t walk out and get a job doing something.”
“In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map thatâ€”when properly read and followedâ€”reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.”
“The world belongs to the articulate.”
“I wasnâ€™t going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest." Iâ€™m already asleep. Youâ€™re the one gabbing.”
“I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.”
“I love to watch movies.”
“Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.”

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