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Robert Musil quote: "And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a..."
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality. Robert Musil
Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he has yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid’s mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son’s hand. I see the pain I’ve caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then... George Saunders
Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players Stephen Covey
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Thomas Jefferson
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."
What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. Harriet Beecher Stowe
A tub was brought in to melt snow for mortar. They heard somebody saying it was twelve o'clock already. "It's sure to be twelve," Shukhov announced. "The sun's over the top already." "If it is," the captain retorted, "it's one o'clock, not twelve." "How do you make that out?" Shukhov asked in surprise. "The old folk say the sun is highest at dinnertime." "Maybe it was in their day!" the captain snapped back. "Since then it's been decreed that the sun is highest at one o'clock." "Who... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another. Charles Bukowski
W. H. Auden quote: "Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return"
Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return W. H. Auden
Charlie Kaufman quote: "Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the..."
Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention? Charlie Kaufman
But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join…he postponed his application for the time when he could do little but rest in the kind of comfortable chair that is to the end of life what a cradle is to the beginning.” Pg 55 Mark Helprin
I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict. Chuck Palahniuk
Literature, after all, from Homer onwards, is littered with the recounting of deaths and with the fascination for death, and in this it only expresses what we all repeatedly dwell on but do not necessarily or readily voice. So far as death goes, I don't claim any oddity. There is only one sea: I'm in the same boat as everyone else. And that seems, more generally, to be the position that every novelist, unless they are possessed of a peculiar arrogance, should take: I am mortal too, I am human... Graham Swift
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good. We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood. And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow! Leonard Bernstein
Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine. Margaret Atwood
Rumi quote: "Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?"
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open? Rumi

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