"We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it."

-- Harvey Mackay

#Life Quotes #Matter Quotes #Common Quotes

“Good Day. We are privileged to live another day in this magnificent world. Today you will be tested.”
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
“The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “The Bad Girl”, p.76, Faber & Faber
“I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'”
“Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.”
“To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--”
“After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.”
“It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.”

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