"The wife's Mother said, â€˜When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.â€™ I said: â€˜Good, I'm being buried at seaâ€™."

-- Les Dawson

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“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”
“To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.”
“To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.”
“Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know Iâ€™m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.”
“I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.”
“Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.”
“Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.”

Source : Candace Bushnell (2010). “The Carrie Diaries”, p.34, Harper Collins

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