"If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs."

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Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

Abraham Cahan

#Broken Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.”
“But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.”
“Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.”
“She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.”
“I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body.”

Source : Josh Kilmer-Purcell (2009). “I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir”, p.19, Harper Collins
“He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.”
“The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.”
“Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.”

Source : "From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931". Book by Jean van Heijenoort, 1967.

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